This essay read more as a memoir than a manifesto. It focuses in on the author and her friends' lived experiences, with a heteronormative and cisnormative worldview. The examples Adichie brought up are sometimes tangible and relatable, but not universally so. This essay addresses a narrow part of what feminism exists to combat, and while narrow it is still important. The points she is making lack an intersectional lens in terms of sexuality and gender diversity. Some of her talking points border on transphobia.