What many people believe it means to “throw like a girl” is to be weak, to put in little effort, and metaphorically it can mean to conform to society’s standards for womanhood. In Iris Marion Young’s study, Throwing Like a Girl, Young’s argument against the sexist take is that women and girls are conditioned to move due to their space and confinement. I think her argument can be connected to my mother’s story, she was confined to a certain culture with all these beliefs that gave her one option only, rather than having the ability to choose, and just like her own experience and culture, my mother has expressed her interest for me to follow in similar footsteps to hers except for the 9 to 5 with kids.

My mother has encouraged me to continue my education and get a better career than the one she currently holds but due to this generational belief of what it means to be a woman she continues to attempt to persuade me to make one of my goals being a good wife in the home to a husband and kids. Unfortunately for society, I don’t want to just “throw like a girl,” I want to throw with the most force ever known to humans and break that stereotype, I will not allow generational trauma and norms to push me into a box that so many before me have fought to dismantle. Me pursuing a hobby in cooking or me having to clean my house will not be for my husband but for me. There is so much women can do, if they want to stay at home and take care of their children they can do that, or if a woman wants to start a business and never have kids, they can do that too because it is their choice.