[Image IDs: Image #1: Screenshot of TikTok video and beginning of comment section. Video has text reading: Normalize telling boys the stories of what women in the family went through. Boys seem to hear "grandma makes the best turkey" while daughters hear "grandma was married at 14." Tell the boys the cost of their favorite meals, too.
Comment from liz: "Grandma made the best food" did you know my grandma dreamt of being a teacher, but never got to finish her middle school education and my grandfather was such a jealous man she couldn't go back to school once she married? She loved to read. Passed this month. I love her
Image #2: Text from gma betty reading: I never lived by myself ever (heart hands emoji). Text reading: when my grandma offered to buy me an air fryer for my new apartment and then sent me this text
Images #3-6: Krystina: My grama co-signed my mortgage after my divorce. She said "I've never owned my own home. Now you have a safe place for you and the kids." She's 85.
Amanda | Midwest Nice: My grandma gave me $100 every month in college. She never got to continue her education. "It's like I'm going to school, too!"
DJ: When I went to college my nana asked if I would get to take history and art classes. She had to fight to go to high school because her father wouldn't allow her to. She would have loved college.
Cropped username: I forget that a lot of older women I know are still just girls that never got to just live.
Val for Nevada: Women are so propagandized that many of us still fantasize about and wish for the lives that generations of women were never allowed to escape or reject. Meanwhile all they ever wanted was to be single and free like you.
parker: Yes I'll never being 22 and kind of sad that I was going to live alone for the first time and my mom was like "it is such a luxury to have that opportunity I've never lived alone in my entire life" (pleading face emoji) it made me a lot more thankful!! /End IDs]
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