for Jeanie

I am the youngest out of three. I have an older brother and an older sister. For as long and i can remember my dad would always let my brother do whatever he wanted when it came to going out with his friends. Up until recently my dad has been very protective of me. I always had to ask to go somewhere and when i did he wanted to know where i was going, who i was going to be with, and how i was getting to where i was going. Also when i would be leaving to go somewhere i would have to call him and then call him again when i got to wherever it was. Most of the time when i was in middle school I wasnt allowed to go many places with my friends if there wasnt any adults there or if he didnt know the parents that would be with us or at their house. Most of the time it became discouraging to even ask to go anywhere. It upset me all the time to see that my brother could do whatever he wanted and i was stuck at home. Whenever i asked my dad why my brother got to do whatever he wanted and i couldnt, he never flat out said its because your a girl he would say something along the lines of he was trying to “protecting” me. I didnt need to hear him say it, i knew it was because i was a girl and he felt that my brother was more likely to be able to take care of himself than i was.
My story brings up the topic that was shown in the movie Halloween. Society has this perpective that women/girls are incapable of taking care of themselves and that they are helpless. I couldnt help but notice in the movie that he mostly killed girls and none of them(except Laurie) tried to fight back.
Also i would like to point out that in the movie everytime he killed a girl she was either naked or half naked. That give the impression that all girls are just a bunch of dumb helpless whores.