This is what is expected of a girl: Picking apart everything about yourself until you’ve run dry, until the only thing you crave more than being beautiful is attention from a man. Your sadness is only meant to exist so that a man can fulfill you, complete you because you are incomplete without him; being whole on your own is not enough. We were taught to look up to a certain type of model. Our society teaches us that the ideal female is one that is mysterious (but not TOO mysterious), allusive, skinny (but not TOO skinny), acne free, you aren’t pretty without makeup (but you can’t wear too much), confident (but not cocky), and interesting (but not inside the borderline of being strange). Every girl is your competetion, not friend. Women are flowery, fragile. Women are supposed to be looked at, are supposed to cook and reproduce. Your body is theirs, not yours, not anymore. This is what is expected of a guy: Boys are taught to “man up”. Men don’t cry, even if you are hurt, …