ted talk chimamanda ngozi adichie we should all be feminist

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the cover of New African Woman magazine “So I Decided I Would Now Be A Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men.” In her essay, the author explores the ways to have a better future without being put into gendered boxes. There are far fewer guides for men for pleasing women.”Ĭhimamanda Adichie offers many examples of gender injustice, but the tone of her book is not accusing. “All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books, telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. She makes an argument that the expectations we have of both genders are rather contributing to a gender divide. We teach them to mask their true selves because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak, a hard man.”Īs a mother of a boy, I wonder what kind of world my son would live, and I dream that this world would be based on equality, love, and inclusiveness for girls, and for boys.Ĭhimamanda shares that the reality today is still different. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability.

Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. “We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. I was expecting it to be mainly about women but Chimamanda is also looking at the way we raise boys: Her book adapted from this talk is similarly melodic and easy to follow. I got enchanted by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s deep poetic voice the first time I heard her much-admired TEDx Talk “We Should All Be Feminists”. “Why the word “feminist”? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights?” In her book “We Should All Be Feminists,” this Nigerian writer, who divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, invites us to dream and start creating a fairer world, a world of happier men and happier women through the medium of feminism. She does not hate men, and yet she talks feminism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wears lip gloss.

Ted talk chimamanda ngozi adichie we should all be feminist