Lifestyle: In Practice

Women are forced to perform — in pain, in love, in how we exist. We are expected to cry beautifully, to suffer gracefully, to turn heartbreak into something marketable. Our pain becomes performance, our struggle becomes art, and our silence becomes survival. Society doesn’t value women until we’re gone, yet demands we endure everything with poise. “Pain as Performance” is a manifesto on how femininity is packaged, sold, and sanctified through suffering.

Beautiful things happen when women refuse to behave. When they protest, leave, say no, and choose themselves first, the world shifts. Men are praised for the bare minimum, while women are expected to be mothers, superheroes, caretakers, and silent. Misbehaving is survival—it’s rebellion, autonomy, and choice. When women misbehave, daughters and granddaughters inherit bravery, freedom, and the right to be unapologetically themselves.

I wasn’t asking for a fantasy—I just wanted honesty. But when men act like boyfriends and refuse to give you the title, it’s not romance, it’s manipulation. Swift gave me the world, but not his word. This is what I learned: confusion is not chemistry, it’s a red flag waving in your face. I don’t do placeholders anymore. If it’s not clear, it’s cut.