"Telling a young girl she can't wear what she wants because it's not appropriate encourages the idea that men's reaction should dictate society's norms, and that all women are meta-Eves, tempting and ensnaring men with our sultry-eyed gaze. My parents' culture is steeped in patriarchy, in the philosophy of the one-step machismo machine, where there is just one kind of man, and two kinds of women: the angel and the whore. These limited ideas of masculinity bred men who want ownership of women." - Fariha Roison
