"Girls" is meant to show us the duality and multitude of women — an ode to the real-life difficulties most young girls face. But how can the show claim to represent girls when so many of us were left out?

When I was 11 years old and sitting on the school bus, a boy came up to me and stuck up his hand an inch away from my face. On his palm, lazily scribbled in pen, was a swastika.