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To Female or not to Feel

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Gender roles and stereotypes are a very funny thing. Funny because someone bought some invisible ink then wrote out all these rules that don't benefit anyone except the narcissists of the world and we all decided to follow because duh? You have to follow rules even if they are unfair and restrict the female population from doing anything slightly empowering. Funny because no matter how many times you call these rules to question, people will still argue that everything that is wrong in this world is because women have the freedom to be who they want to be. Apparently our dysfunctional society cannot handle women who are bold. I personally reject these rules and believe we can do better. A while ago i was  watching an old episode of Isidingo on SABC Encore with my mother and grandmother. In this episode a young man whose name i cannot recall, played by Rapulana Seiphemo, was in a club with a girl whose name i also do not remember and at some point Rapulana's character bent his...