A girl changes her route home to avoid harassment. Another tells a doctor how much her period hurts and leaves feeling dismissed. A Black girl speaks up about how she’s been treated, and suddenly the adults are talking about her tone. How much of what we call “growing up” is really girls learning what adults expect them to put up with?
In this episode of the WeSurviveAbuse Podcast, Tonya GJ Prince asks why girls are so often expected to adjust to the very conditions adults have the power to change. From sexual harassment and racial bias at school to whose pain gets taken seriously and whose team gets the resources, this conversation looks at what girls are asked to give up just to get through an ordinary day.
It’s easy to say “those poor girls” when we hear what girls endure somewhere else. What happens when the girl asking for help is in our own school, our own family, or right in front of us?
Listen to It’s Time We Stopped Telling Girls to Get Comfortable With Harm and Injustice. Then share it with someone who has the power to make a girl’s day safer, fairer, or a little easier to get through.
