At birth, boys and girls do have physiological and behavioral differences that range from different sexual organs to potty training time. After puberty, these differences are even more apparent, but these gender characteristics should not determine or limit the quality of a female’s life. Even after various feminist movements, there are still people who would love to confine women to the kitchen just because they were born girls. In society today, where women fight for equal gender rights and opportunities, Jamica Kincaid’s Girl helps to point out these social issues by showing a simple mother-daughter conversation influenced by patriarchy and misogyny formulated by men. From the beginning of the text, the second-person point of view puts the…show more content… It causes men to believe that men have certain roles and women have certain roles. The mother is trying to make the daughter aware of or prepare her for society by giving her a script of what to do and how to behave. When the mother says so, “you won’t be the slut that you are so bent on becoming” (Kincaid), the word “slut” has roots in toxic masculinity, as when a woman has more than one partner, she is downgraded to a whore, but if a man has several women, then he is a champion. Contrary to some belief that misogyny originated from colonization, In Kincaid’s Girl, the relation to colonialism would make you think that she puts certain blame on it, but according to the journal Patriarchal Limitations imposed on African Women, “feminism has always existed in some African countries, even before the advent of colonialism" (Egbung 82). This quote shows the ideology of gender inequality and the fact that the need for feminist movements arose before colonization. As stated earlier, this disparity is the result of men conceiving that women were born second to
