Girls are extraordinary at emotional warfare. I never have understood why we send scores of men to war. We should only send teenage girls to fight each other, with no weapons. Just words. They would fucking annihilate each other. The only groups powerful enough to not have to kill the enemy, they simply make the enemy want to kill themselves. My body still carries the shrapnel of the moments girls at school would nudge each other when I entered the room, as they scanned my outfit… and would squeeze each other’s arms whenever I spoke in class. I am not over it thirty years later. Jameela Jamil, A Low Desire To Please