You can't always get what you want, right? Unless you're a girl. Because girls just wanna have fun.
This photo was taken in New York in a restaurant-by-day, dance club-by-night. Take a look at what I found. I told them that I had a blog and wanted their picture to post, which wasn't true at the time, I just wanted a picture of them because they looked pretty amazing. But check it out, I ended up telling the truth on accident! Cool. So. Let's take a peep, what do we have here?
The book worm, the cutie pie, the comedian, and the bitch. Looks like a pretty dead-on representation of the main seasons of girls. In class today we took a few hours to look at gender differences in the brain, the hippocampus' size difference, the fluctuation of amygdala use, etc. and it suddenly occurred to me that I really enjoy being a girl. We may have smaller brains than men, but we have more gray matter than them. Whatever that means. There are stereotypes to women, words like "catty, sultry, loving, creative, emotional, exclusive, loud, etc" and I'm 100% okay with being a stereotype, mostly because when it comes to real people, there is quite a lot of fine print to add. I guess you could see stereotyping as a sort of rounding up from the sum of a lifestyle. Hey, I'm a girl. I'm stoked! I've got friends to share clothes with, and I have a blast dancing in my room with the other ladies in the hall. I also enjoy a weekend brunch. That's a big one. I don't think guys use that word, but I see them at brunch every Sunday. I think they generalize it by the time of day. Let's get...lunch. With eggs and roasted potatoes. At noon. That works. But me? I get brunch. I like wearing dresses a lot, which is something I just discovered within the last 3 years. But it's really nice having the open option to wear basically whatever. It's funny, but I consider androgyny to be a very important part of embracing femininity. Feminism has really gone downhill since the suffragettes went on their walk through town. Remember them? Remember their shoes? Yeah, they wore heels. I don't really understand the logic behind new feminism through the expression of baggy clothes, boyish haircuts and a ban on cosmetics. I don't see any of these things as personal disgraces if someone chooses them as a part of their life, but to clump it together and call if "feminism" is a bit illogical.
Being a powerful woman to me is being able to balance your level of sensuality and personality. Just because you don't want to be a floosey in the eyes of the general public doesn't mean you have to be a man. I love a pair of trousers just as much as the next Diane Keaton, but to call them the sign of a woman untouched by the affects of "Man," well, that's just silly. *smile* You know?
Thursday
Brunch is for the Birds
You can't always get what you want, right? Unless you're a girl. Because girls just wanna have fun.
This photo was taken in New York in a restaurant-by-day, dance club-by-night. Take a look at what I found. I told them that I had a blog and wanted their picture to post, which wasn't true at the time, I just wanted a picture of them because they looked pretty amazing. But check it out, I ended up telling the truth on accident! Cool. So. Let's take a peep, what do we have here?
The book worm, the cutie pie, the comedian, and the bitch. Looks like a pretty dead-on representation of the main seasons of girls. In class today we took a few hours to look at gender differences in the brain, the hippocampus' size difference, the fluctuation of amygdala use, etc. and it suddenly occurred to me that I really enjoy being a girl. We may have smaller brains than men, but we have more gray matter than them. Whatever that means. There are stereotypes to women, words like "catty, sultry, loving, creative, emotional, exclusive, loud, etc" and I'm 100% okay with being a stereotype, mostly because when it comes to real people, there is quite a lot of fine print to add. I guess you could see stereotyping as a sort of rounding up from the sum of a lifestyle. Hey, I'm a girl. I'm stoked! I've got friends to share clothes with, and I have a blast dancing in my room with the other ladies in the hall. I also enjoy a weekend brunch. That's a big one. I don't think guys use that word, but I see them at brunch every Sunday. I think they generalize it by the time of day. Let's get...lunch. With eggs and roasted potatoes. At noon. That works. But me? I get brunch. I like wearing dresses a lot, which is something I just discovered within the last 3 years. But it's really nice having the open option to wear basically whatever. It's funny, but I consider androgyny to be a very important part of embracing femininity. Feminism has really gone downhill since the suffragettes went on their walk through town. Remember them? Remember their shoes? Yeah, they wore heels. I don't really understand the logic behind new feminism through the expression of baggy clothes, boyish haircuts and a ban on cosmetics. I don't see any of these things as personal disgraces if someone chooses them as a part of their life, but to clump it together and call if "feminism" is a bit illogical.
Being a powerful woman to me is being able to balance your level of sensuality and personality. Just because you don't want to be a floosey in the eyes of the general public doesn't mean you have to be a man. I love a pair of trousers just as much as the next Diane Keaton, but to call them the sign of a woman untouched by the affects of "Man," well, that's just silly. *smile* You know?
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Sara, I agree. Androgyny can be very healthy for men and women. We get stuck in out gender identification and roles and we loose our Selves in the process. It is totally silly. People should just focus on who they are not how they are born. But it is also good to be very comfortable in your own skin and gender. So kudos all around.
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