When the warrior inside you weakens, you also give others the opportunity to control you and possibly make you their footstool. It’s crucial that you never allow this to happen. This can occur on much deeper level like in countries that have thrived on patriarchy. In these countries women are led to believe that they are not equal to men. The crazy part is they actually believe this nonsense; and no matter what evidence you provide to oppose such dogmatic views and ideologies, they won’t accept it. From the time these women are young, they are made to believe that women and men are not equal.

The part that saddens my heart is that a large number of these women will even defend these views. It’s this defensive attitude that indicates that mentally, they have been negatively impacted. For example, I was talking to a lady and she stated that she keeps herself covered so that men do not yearn after her, because she becomes the problem as she should have never been exposed. Now why would you want to be responsible for someone’s behaviour? Why aren’t these men held accountable for their wrong doing/mishap? Why should women be the only ones with self-control? I could go on and on with this topic but to keep in line with the quote above, I will refrain from doing so. All I am saying is that once you have been led to believe something whether through social construction or your own doing, something happens inside you that can either make you or break you.