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Angelica Sanchez

Growing up, every time my father saw a driver cut corners on the road, park crookedly, or just generally be bad at driving, he would always point out the car and say things such as “I bet she is a woman” and “Look at how badly this girl parked”, blindly assuming that the drivers were women simply because they were bad at driving. If the driver was a male, he would say things like “Come on man! You have to do better than that!”. As a young child, I was curious to see if the drivers were female. As I got older, I brushed off the comments and rolled my eyes. But now that I am a teen, I tell him why it is wrong to say things like that, and how telling me these sexist things as a child could have really affected me if I had not been so exposed to feminism.