Facts about Feminism | ✓

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Guy | Girl

At 4 o'clock sharp, the two sat down again for the shared hour of detention. Before her bum could even touch the seat, the guy started.

"What are you planning?" His brows furrowed with suspicion.

"I have no idea what you mean." She said lightly.

"Don't act like you don't know. You'd say a few sentences about how horrible it is to be a girl and then gloat silently for the rest of the hour."

"I did nothing of that sort. I was just making conversation. She glared at him warningly, "And I don't gloat."

"Whatever." He mumbled, his head falling into his arms.

- - -

"What do you think is the worst thing to lose?" She said after a while of thinking.

He hesitated before replying, "My life."

The girl smiled, she was pleasantly surprised at the fact he chose to reply to her question."Have you ever imagined losing your life because of who you are?"

"A lot of people lose their life because of who they are."

"But many lose their life because of their gender, something they can't control, something that is decided well before they are born. There are women who are murdered, who are beaten to death, who are kidnapped and killed, who lose their worth, confidence, safety, dignity, privacy, voice, and all sense of life and happiness because of rape, abuse, and sexual assault."

"Come on. That doesn't actually happen."

"1 in 3 women will be beaten or raped in her life."

"And I have to live in the fear that someday, I might be one of them."