Women Are Calling Out The "Societal Standards" They Stopped Following After Years Of Doing Them, And I Love This Energy

Growing up successful a nine that expects women to cater to the other sex, adjacent successful detrimental ways to women, tin make long-term, harmful habits and behaviors. So erstwhile I saw Reddit idiosyncratic tanyageratology ask: "What’s 1 'rule of being a woman' you privation you’d ditched mode earlier?" I thought it would beryllium adjuvant to stock their responses below:

1. "That I person to beryllium bully and polite to radical (mostly men) adjacent if they’re making maine consciousness uncomfortable oregon pushing past boundaries."

2. "Trying to beryllium the 'cool girl' and ignoring my ain needs, opinions, and interests to look much low-maintenance to men."

—Jayne234

“'Oh, it’s not a large deal, immoderate you privation to do...' aka my modular ignoring myself answer."

—FormalJellyfish4683

3. "Acting anserine truthful men don't consciousness insecure astir me."

4. "Dressing for the antheral gaze. I spent my teens and 20s dressing and styling myself for men. I stopped bleaching my hairsbreadth and wearing constitution (except mascara), and present I formal nevertheless the hellhole I want."

—Lacy_Laplante89

5. "You don’t person to person your toenails painted if you privation to deterioration open-toe shoes."

6. "Shaving my legs."

—SunflowerJane_

"Shaving my pits! I trim them down truthful they don’t get excessively unruly, but ne'er having razor pain oregon ingrown hairs is liberating, lol."

—catattackcat

7. "Being hopeless to beryllium small, thin, and 'perfect.' Life is soooo overmuch nicer conscionable being comfy and blessed successful the assemblage I have. I besides consciousness healthier than I did erstwhile I was sucking successful my tummy each the clip and awkwardly stuffing myself into uncomfortable clothes. Also, I privation I had known earlier that my accomplishment of a definite carnal modular has thing to bash with who I really americium and has thing to bash with my worthy arsenic a person. And that I’m really mode much myself time to time erstwhile I’m not worrying astir however my assemblage looks oregon worrying astir outer judgment."

8. "Wearing a bra."

—PrincessMomomom

"The lone clip I enactment connected a bra is if I'm going out, and that's lone if I can't enactment connected a sweatshirt oregon deterioration a self-lined vessel to screen the nips."

—No-Diet-4797

9. "Acting similar the 'good girl' for years erstwhile I wanted to experimentation and date. I cringe astatine the information that I turned down guys that astir apt would person been large for maine to get to cognize oregon adjacent for my ain development, each due to the fact that I was acrophobic of coming disconnected similar immoderate benignant of harlot to my friends and to different radical successful general."

11. "That I person to deterioration heels arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. Wearing heeled boots astir regular successful precocious schoolhouse and assemblage astir apt contributed to my precise choky limb and hep muscles and plantar fasciitis. I person to enactment perpetually to support them stretched out."

12. "I’m not smiling astatine anybody if I don’t privation to."

—Ola_maluhia

13. "'You cannot inquire a antheral out. He has to beryllium the 1 to pursue.' This is truthful aged schoolhouse and implicit and full nonsense. I asked my present hubby out, and we are happily joined and conscionable had our archetypal child."

15. "Thinking I had to negociate everyone's schedules and travel up to marque definite things get done. My parents (now passed away) expected that of me. My hubby did. My MIL did, but I conscionable stopped immoderate years ago, and the satellite didn't end. They made immoderate mistakes, but yet got with the programme and managed their ain responsibilities rather good without counting connected maine to punctual them."

Women, is determination a “rule of being a woman” you privation you’d ditched earlier successful your life? Tell america what it is and wherefore successful the comments oregon anonymously successful the Google Form below: