#57 girls will be girls...

"I started questioning gender based assumptions a long time ago.
When I was 8 I was confused at being called bossy because I wanted to direct plays that we would put on for our parents. But the boys were not.
When at 14 I started to be sexualised by certain elements of the media.
When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly.
When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
I decided that I was a Feminist."

 

I was called bossy all my life. I was called tom-boy. I was told that girls don't run around and should be more quiet. I was told that girls wear skirts and don't kick boys in the legs when the try to grab them. I was told that being a woman is all about being discrete, beauty, make-up, soft-power. Soft, sweet, pale, dresses, flowers, Jane Austen.
I was called "bossy" all my life but no-one ever told me that if I was a boy, "bossy" would be substituted by "leadership skills".
A strong woman is not yet an alpha-female.