We flawless.

I have felt very empowered as a woman this week. It all started when I bought the new Beyoncé album, and started walking around the house shouting at my dogs to "bow down, bitches." Yesterday, one of my female role models Amy Poehler won her first Golden Globe, and I was very excited. In one of the breaks between awards, a really wonderful Bing ad aired that has not left my mind since. I wanted to share it on Facebook, but some things are just too long to share on there. Therefore, I have decided post it here so that I could have some space to include a sample of the spoken word essay "Why we should all be feminists" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that appears in one of Queen Bey's new songs Flawless.

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller
We say to girls: "You can have ambition, but not too much
You should aim to be successful, but not too successful
Otherwise, you will threaten the man"
Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is most important
Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors
Not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are
Feminist: a person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes."

 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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