Adichie, in her essay, argues that the society is completely double standard, and man is considered superior to women. She makes many fantastic points to prove her arguments in a conversational tone by using personal anecdotes, without seeming preachy or patronizing. She starts her essay by using his personal story when she was in school and was fully ambitious to become class monitor. Even after scoring the highest marks in class a boy, instead of her, who was not even interested in patrolling the class was made class monitor because it was obvious in teachers view that monitor had to be a boy. Everything is praised if it is done by man and if the women does the same thing than it becomes wrong. Adichie explains this point in aver amazing
