This thought-provoking essay explores the disturbing link between womanhood and suffering, highlighting how societal norms and systems perpetuate violence, inequality, and pain for women. It argues that issues like gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, the wage gap, and inadequate healthcare contribute to a vicious cycle of suffering, often normalized and applauded as virtue, honor, strength, and resilience. The essay calls for a redefinition of womanhood, advocating for an end to the association of strength with suffering and promoting a world where women can live free from violence, economic disadvantage, and systemic failures, with dignity, respect, and equality.

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