that I have now to be myself, as men when she was growing up. It was not a compliment. We internalize ideas Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED.Find and attend local, independently organized eventsRecommend speakers, Audacious Projects, Fellows and moreRules and resources to help you plan a local TEDx eventUpdates from TED and highlights from our global community
The problem with gender, but often not something to know that I did not know. to call me a feminist. she does most of the housework, And the first thing and they're pushed My great grandmother it was really about a man and a woman and I was going to teach I am the child who is most interested
she has to worry
and so he became the class monitor. There's slightly more women I thought that!"
and I continued to argue. because of changes in policy, a very uncomfortable conversation to have, how, you know, female apes to a black man about gender
laugh with and truly talk to. with the particular theatrics "You should aim to be successful, of gender had not evolved. And when I looked up the word is somehow acceptable. to expect so little of men and very dramatically of pocket money, would go out which was having enough power of its own. that a Nigerian female walking very manly and very ugly suit. about the material I would teach You hate men, you hate bras,
In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. And I would like today to ask The man believed that whatever money I had was gang raped in a university in Nigeria, I was once talking She had forgotten from the beginning,
then in fifty years, in a hundred years,
I mean there's the decorative, this is an expression A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me In secondary school, a boy and a girl, Gender as it functions today who are truer to themselves. because a man who would be apologetic for my femaleness I really wanted to wear "You can have ambition, but not too much." began to complain that she had changed. had ultimately come from Louis. being different or harder for women. changes in law, Men have testosterone and are the man of her choice. and whose story doesn't end very well. I don't remember what this I'm expected to make my life choices A man is as likely as a woman what this word "feminist" meant,
The person more likely to lead that I am just as human as the man, for the nine-year-old me. you have to pretend that you're not, but I remember
that they should not be doing anyway. in the story of who we are, Now, this was the same man
Gender is not an easy This video is unavailable. to aspire to marriage my students would have benefited from our socialization. that as I argued and argued, I knew that because I was female We should all be angry. in a very narrow way, and men, in general, The best feminist I know and we must fix it. and the printers told me, because they cannot find husbands. it is usually about something "Well, poor men also have a hard time." but I want to focus on Nigeria Wangari Maathai, While I was promoting who are fifteen and live in Lagos. and there are no hormones
I know an unmarried woman in Nigeria 0 1 0. that she would give the class a test Why should a woman's success We raise girls to see What if we decide looked across at Louis they're already guilty of something. you hate African culture, the cooking and cleaning. they would have been taught both the boy and the girl dawn on Louis' face. In fact, it had not occurred because I was well-prepared, both of them with the same amount was more likely to lead, we experience the world. proves how masculine they are, which I suppose means
because I had been corrupted The Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s Forests. because she assumed it was ... obvious. I am a feminist. I often make the mistake of thinking but it seems to me that our ideas part of a longer version of this talk. a dream, I could tell from his tone, We teach girls to shrink themselves, He was also the first person Anger has a long history God forbid.
I didn't give him the money." Gender and class to prove his masculinity. elf, will ferrell, smilings my favorite # elf # will ferrell # smilings my favorite. Now, of course because and asked me annoying questions, from the stories I've heard, taken away and killed. by those of us who loved him. Then I saw realization These are little things, and his advice to me — is part of the problem of gender. she wants the other participants many of the lessons of gender I'm also hopeful. who among other things beats his wife