In Filipino and other Asian households, the panganay labor swells almost tenfold for the eldest daughter, and she is often tasked with keeping the entire household intact—even when we didn’t know what we were giving up at the time
Women are made to chalk up mourning our bodies, the physical changes we go through, and the words and actions flung at us ridiculing that change to superficiality
It's saying: "You’re pretty, even if you’ve got a feature that’s not supposed to make you pretty."
Despite being marketed Barbie dolls, we were all told to denounce anything feminine out of fear of being deemed too girly—when we were girls. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” shifts this mindset.
Women on the internet have to endure so much just to exist on it
Learning to be gentle with myself was not an easy thing to do
