They Lied To Us About Having It All, And It's Costing Us Our Children
February 18, 2026
I was in elementary school the first time I heard it. "Girls can do anything." The poster in my school hallway showed a little girl, fists on hips, staring down the world like it owed her something. "Girl power!" "The future is female." The messaging was everywhere—in my classroom, on merchandise, in the TV shows that told us we were destined for boardrooms, not bassinets.
Love and family? Those were for women who gave up. Who settled. Who betrayed the sisterhood.
