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life 1 min read 537 views Jun 1, 2015

Contingencies of a Female

It's a girl! Get out the pink bows and follow the rules.

You can't do this, and you can't do that.

If you dress like this, then you will be treated like that.

Girls don't do that, are those that do not deserve respect.

If you want this, then you have to do that.

If you hadn't done this, then that wouldn't have happened.

If you had done that, then this would have happened.

You are this.

You are that.

You can't do this, 'cause you can't do that.

Stop, girls have no business doing that.

What kind of girl does that?

You will never get this, if you don't do that.

You will get this, if you do that.

Girls don't think like that. 

What makes you think you can do that? You're a girl!

This is your place, they say.

You can't do that, they say.

You should act like a girl, they say.

Don't be such a girl.

What do you expect, when these are the rules?

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