1.When your extended family thinks you're already way past your marriageable age.
2.When your grandmother thinks no one will marry you unless you learn to cook.
3.When your country's leaders seem to be competing to be the most regressive on women's issues.
4.When your classmates says you can't play cricket because you're a girl.
5.When some men have the balls to say that women actually have more privileges than men.
6.When your friend tells you her fiancé doesn't want her working after marriage.
7.When you get dressed up for yourself but are judged in accordance with the male gaze anyway. Ugh.
8.When you're terrified of being out alone after 10 p.m. because of those few countrymen who don't know about consent.
9.When your politicians invent the reasons women get raped in this country, and it's never "the patriarchy" or "institutionalised misogyny" or, yaknow, "rapists."
10.Whenever you meet a "meninist."
11.When you tried to adhere to society's views of beauty because you didn't know better.
12.When a man on Twitter tries to tell you that your views on women's rights are wrong.
13.When someone tries to tell you you're overreacting and you have no choice but to drop years of knowledge and IPC codes at them.
14.When your parents make you meet an over-righteous imbecile to be your future partner.
15.When you finally meet another empowered woman and find more in common with her than your BFF.
16.When yet another hero saves yet another damsel in distress from the baddies in a Bollywood movie.
17.When you try to explain the complicated concept of equality using muffins.
18.When your male coworker thinks the pay gap doesn't exist.
19.When 52% of India's children think that women’s “main role” is to tend to their households and children.
20.When your promiscuous male friend (a "player") calls a girl a "slut" for leading the exact same lifestyle he does.
21.When you hear a "make me a sandwich" joke.
22.When you just can't handle any more fragile male egos to get what you want.
23.When someone asks if you're on your period every time you're the slightest bit emotive.
24.When you're sick of society giving more rights to cows than you.
