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From the Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists

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(Applause)

And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender is sometimes to ecnenotur almost immediate resistance. I can iminage some people here are actually thinking, "Women too do sef." Some of the men here might be thinking, "OK, all of this is interesting, but I don't think like that." And that is part of the problem.

That many men do not aviletcy think about gender or notice gdener is part of the problem of gender. That many men, say, like my friend luois, that everything is fine now. And that many men do nothing to cgnahe it. If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant with a woman and the waiter greets only you, does it occur to you to ask the waetir, "Why haven't you greeted her?" Because gender can be --

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And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender is sometimes to _________ almost immediate resistance. I can _______ some people here are actually thinking, "Women too do sef." Some of the men here might be thinking, "OK, all of this is interesting, but I don't think like that." And that is part of the problem.

That many men do not ________ think about gender or notice ______ is part of the problem of gender. That many men, say, like my friend _____, that everything is fine now. And that many men do nothing to ______ it. If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant with a woman and the waiter greets only you, does it occur to you to ask the ______, "Why haven't you greeted her?" Because gender can be --

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  1. waiter
  2. actively
  3. change
  4. louis
  5. encounter
  6. imagine
  7. gender

Original Text


(Applause)

And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender is sometimes to encounter almost immediate resistance. I can imagine some people here are actually thinking, "Women too do sef." Some of the men here might be thinking, "OK, all of this is interesting, but I don't think like that." And that is part of the problem.

That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender is part of the problem of gender. That many men, say, like my friend Louis, that everything is fine now. And that many men do nothing to change it. If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant with a woman and the waiter greets only you, does it occur to you to ask the waiter, "Why haven't you greeted her?" Because gender can be --

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