The author goes on to point out that the same thinking applies to issues such as body confidence and body positivity, before again encouraging women not to submit to gender stereotypes – but this time about how they feel society wants them to look.

“Do you feel like it’s not OK to leave the house if you haven’t shaved your legs? And can we think about how men are not under that pressure?”

Without missing a beat, she produces a solution to the problem: “How would you feel about walking out of your house with unshaved legs? Maybe you, in a little way, are part of a big thing, by saying you don’t want women to be judged just by what they look like.

“It’s absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don’t have to do, then we need to think about it differently.”

It’s the kind of attitude that you want to bottle up and sprinkle over a generation of young girls and women everywhere, if only to prove to them that they don’t have to live their lives under a shadow of crushingly unrealistic expectations.

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