Men and boys, what’s the hardest pill you’ve had to swallow?

When I realized at 9-10 years old that girls and women are valued just for existing and that boys and men are only valued for what they can achieve, create, dominate or otherwise control (even if it’s just money). That was a depressing revelation. But it’s no less true now than it was then.

I realize that women don’t play life on easy mode by any means; they certainly have their own challenges. But the idea that I as a male wasn’t worth a bucket of warm spit to anyone unless I made that happen against all odds was something difficult to contend with, I won’t lie.