Feminity Saved My Life

“Why do they never pass it to me?” The question passed through my mind at least once during each middle school P.E. class. The boys never gave me the ball, whatever we were playing even if I was half a foot taller than them, not to mention wide open.

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This thought is probably my earliest memory of feminism. I had an “anything you can do, I can do better” attitude, especially when it came to boys doing things. I had to be…