Many Indo-Guyanese girls are conditioned from a very young age to view their vaginas as dirty and shameful. The Indo-Guyanese patriarchal culture and concrete gender roles and norms significantly contribute to how the brown female is viewed and raised but what about the personal development of the individual?
Category: Women
Females are oppressed because of the obsession with and hatred of the vagina
We live in a world where in some countries it’s possible to identify as another gender although one’s biological sex is not of that gender for instance, a person with…
Girls and women are brainwashed to hate themselves
The brainwashing of girls start from the moment they become self-aware. Through the ‘teachings’ of the adults they learn how to view themselves and their roles as females. Many persons…
The first thing that is suppressed is the female sexuality
Sex is normal, natural and biological, yet discussions on it, including female sexuality, reproductive organs and processes are taboo. If women weren’t attracted to men and men to women, where…
The State of Women: Chasing Freedom
For many, to be born female is to expect a lifetime of having one’s freedom greatly restricted. In patriarchal societies worldwide, women are governed by concrete gender roles and expectations…
Raised to be silent and unopinionated
Like many women I was raised to be silent and unopinionated. Silence is a powerful weapon that controls and oppresses. Silence is also often taken as consent. Consent to being…