Having spent more than 5 years in boarding school, I was trained to use all these new words that had been invented to name-call and make fun of anyone who lacked “manly” traits. How exactly did we get there? What went wrong in society to make it acceptable to place blame on those who didn’t precisely fit into a preconceived model?

While I enchant my clothes with Givenchy, let’s talk about social construct and patriarchy.