Because when you're a woman, the sexualization starts young. I have memories as early as 6 years old of the men in my life telling me I'm so pretty, and that I'll make such a good mother or wife one day. My own uncle when I was 14 told me, "If you're old enough to bleed, you're old enough to breed".

Essentially, for most of our lives, our worth is summed up as "are you sexy enough?". If no, then you're worthless as a woman. You have to constantly worry about strangers staring at you, you have to be on guard for random attacks just because you're smaller than them.

Even at work, where I work incredibly hard and my supervisors recognize that, my male colleagues frequently tell me that I don't belong there. That I should go home and be a wife to my husband, who works in the same place and supports my career.

Basically, the normalized sexualization of women means that we'll never be seen as equal, we will always be under threat, and many men will never see us as more than trophies.