For my liberating action, I decided to invite my boyfriend out on a date for our fifth anniversary. Growing up, the women in my family always taught me that I needed to date a guy who had money and could take care of me. If he was poorer than me, he wasn't worth my time. As a child, I saw men spoil my mother and sister with things they wanted and I wanted it too. It's a pattern to see the women in my family depend on men for things like paying bills or buying food. They tell me to become an "independent woman", but they tell me that I need a guy with money, so he can take care of me. They often contradict themselves and are not great role models as independent women. This is a pro-women act because the idea that a man has to pay for a date is unfair. Women are more than capable of paying for dates. I feel like this happens a lot in our society. It is the norm and continues to think that women are inferior to men and need men to take care of them. I don't think I fit the description of a needy, helpless woman who needs a man....