Sometimes I get so tired of everything that I wish I were a boy. Why should we have to expend so much of energy for basic thing just because we happened to be born as a female, something in which we had no say. My parents gave me hell because I wanted to study engineering in a different city where my relatives won't be there to check in on me. Now giving me hell to do Mtech so that my resume for a rishta can garner extra brownie points. While I want to go for a job because I know they're going to start forcing me to marry as soon as I finish my bachelor's and that's the last thing I want. I got emotionally blackmailed so much for everything. I hear sexist things like they're normal all the time. You shouldn't do job in a different city because when you get married if the guy works somewhere else you'll have to quit. They can't process girls and guys being friends. Once I told them I'd be going somewhere along with a guy friend and they still assumed it was a girl I didn't correct then further. They make such a big deal out of our physical appearance that it feels like we're some commodity they're going to be selling off. When my brother was born it was celebrated so much every relative invited because he's the youngest of us, they stopped having kids once he was born. This disturbing pattern is so prevalent. I hear my parents say koi baat nahin agli baar try karna whenever a girl is born amongst my relatives. Yet they try to act they're such feminists in front of our relatives. Girls are far more obedient it's just the society that hypes up boys. Well, YOU are the society. Sometimes it feels like my entire existence is just so I can get married, no identity or emotions of my own beyond that. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.