The internet wants women to stop acting like ‘birds’
On TikTok, the word has become shorthand for being male-centred, prompting women to share their dating horror stories and unlearn their ‘bird’ behaviour before summertime
Black News 
Last year, 24-year-old Nia Wilkerson said the famous last words uttered by countless women before her: “I can change him”. Wilkerson was in the throes of a situationship, seeing a man she knew had no real intention of dating her. Even though he had told her this explicitly, Wilkerson, holding out hope, kept seeing him. “I would buy him gifts,” she recalls. “I would cook him dinner in the house he never took me out of. As soon as he would call, I’d pick up the phone and go right backhellip;
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