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As you said, it wasn’t one thing, it was many. My first clear memory where I started to question things was when I was about 9-11 years old. I encountered an anti-abortion rally downtown while I was with my father.
I asked him what they were protesting.
“They think it’s wrong for a woman to end a pregnancy.”
“Oh, killing babies is bad, isn’t it?”
“Do you think a woman should be made to carry a pregnancy even if she doesn’t want it?”
“Ohhh…. Hmm…”
I’m simplifying it, but my father was the first to reframe autonomy and free will for me. I hadn’t begun to realize how the world polices women up until that point.
The abortion debate started my blood boiling, too. The rest was fuel.
My dad was my source of "being a bitch" (as some had it: I would say "sticking to my autonomous guns"). Some fathers, it seems, actually love their daughters enough to question the system they grew up in. Those are the precious ones.