As soon as I started reading Sallie Tisdale’s “A Weight That Women Carry” I couldn’t wait to start writing my response. It made me feel angry, so incredibly angry. My anger wasn’t directed towards the author by rather the society we live in. I don’t believe her struggle is one contained to just women but men as well. As soccer season came to a close junior year I made a promise to myself that next year I was going to come back bigger, stronger and faster than I ever was before. That promise lead me to my high school’s after school lifting program. I can remember the first time I entered the room all the more masculine senior boys and juniors who had hit puberty much faster than I grunting and groaning, and the heavy weights banging on the
