I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys because that's they way it was supposed to be. that's the way we grew up, learning that little girls should be prim and proper, to grow up in to beautiful young women and then get married to a handsome young man only to get pregnant and take care of 2.8 screaming kids, soccer games, ballet classes, swim, dinner and taking the family dog, Fido, to the vet. in the mean time the husband would get up at seven, go to work at nine and work al...

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This obsolete phrase brings wretched offense to the ears of modern American women. ... With Africans learning from western worlds to live a dog eat dog lifestyle, there grew a gigantic separation of genders and social classes. There were men, women, very rich, and very poor. ... Ngũgĩ gives hope to the weakened sex; he gives promise that working together, being patient strong, flexible and willing will pull them to where they need to be. ... They must stand, they are the weaker sex in this new modernized world, but there is always hope. ...

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