I Hope A Woman You Care About Is Affected By A Man Just Like You

To the local business owner who told her he would rather see her go to work in a burka than any of the clothing she owned because he did not want to see her body.

To the counselor who told her if her marriage failed it would be her fault because she was not letting her husband be a man.

To the installation technician who talked over her head to the men in the room after assuming she could not be the one responsible for overseeing the equipment.

To the church official who implied that if she did not find women’s work to occupy her time in the church then she was no use in carrying out the mission of God.

To the supervisor who asked if she was pregnant as an explanation for what he considered irrational behavior after she refused to be bullied by him or anyone else in the midst of a stressful project at work.

I hope a woman you care about is affected by a man just like you.

Maybe your oldest female friend has struggled with positive body image her whole life and you never understood why.