Dua Lipa, in an interview, has recalled her college days and revealed that she has felt “anger in direction of the patriarchy” from a younger age.
The Future Nostalgia hitmaker stated she first realized to face up for herself in school, at round age seven or eight, after being angered by the sport Kiss Chase on the playground.
The singer defined: “Boys would begin it and chase the ladies across the playground, making an attempt to kiss us.”
She continued: “So that you’re operating round and laughing, nevertheless it’s a nervous laughter. You do not actually know what’s taking place, and also you’re speculated to be like, ‘Oh, the boys fancy me.’ Prefer it was a sport about profitable their approval. I hated that.”
She stated there finally got here a day the place she “simply wasn’t within the temper to run”, and she or he deployed a tactic to maintain boys away and punish them in the event that they got here shut.
“I do not understand how I picked it up, however when a boy would come close to me, I might say, ‘Yeah, come right here’. After which I’d pinch their shoulders like this,” she stated, motioning along with her fingers.
“Till they fell to their knees. That was the purpose once I began standing as much as boys, and the boys began being afraid of me.”
In a brand new interview with American Vogue, of which she is the June/July cowl star, Dua Lipa went on: “I’ve all the time had this anger towards the patriarchy. I simply by no means preferred boys telling me what to do.”
