Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote
We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak—a .
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak—a .
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