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Jun. 25th, 2009 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsThere are definitely times when it kind of sucks having girlbits. (Emergency drugstore run on a day when I was already 20 minutes late for work: UNHELPFUL, body!)
On those days, I find, it is helpful to remember the things that most of the time make me pretty happy to be female-shaped. Therefore, in no particular order: five reasons I think it is generally awesome to be a lady!
1. It is socially acceptable for me to wear skirts in summer! And in winter too, of course, but in summer is when it is most important. Guys, if you were smart, you would overturn that social stigma about guys in skirts right now, or at least invest in kilts, because I cannot even express how much more comfortable it is not to have fabric wrapped completely around your legs when it's hot out. If nothing else, this is evident proof of how sexism is bad for guys as well as girls.
2. I get a ton of totally awesome role models, real and fictional.
(Not quite as many that are as well known or as popular for dudes, it is certainly true, but here is the secret: because of the privilege system that means they have to work harder for it, it makes them all awesomer than their dude counterparts. Sorry, guys, it's just the truth.)
3. I get to have girlfriends! I am not dissing my friends who are guys here either, obviously, but - seriously, you don't know how angry I get when I hear people say that girls are always bitchy and backstabbing with each other, because not only is it misogynistic, it is just a flat-out lie. I honestly do not know what I would do without all my amazing female friends. Including, of course, most of you guys.
4. I can reach the high-pitched notes necessary for proper shrieking in glee without having to have had important bits of my anatomy removed in childhood!
5. I do not have the cooties I would have had, had I had the misfortune to be born male.
I encourage people to add things to the list!
On those days, I find, it is helpful to remember the things that most of the time make me pretty happy to be female-shaped. Therefore, in no particular order: five reasons I think it is generally awesome to be a lady!
1. It is socially acceptable for me to wear skirts in summer! And in winter too, of course, but in summer is when it is most important. Guys, if you were smart, you would overturn that social stigma about guys in skirts right now, or at least invest in kilts, because I cannot even express how much more comfortable it is not to have fabric wrapped completely around your legs when it's hot out. If nothing else, this is evident proof of how sexism is bad for guys as well as girls.
2. I get a ton of totally awesome role models, real and fictional.
(Not quite as many that are as well known or as popular for dudes, it is certainly true, but here is the secret: because of the privilege system that means they have to work harder for it, it makes them all awesomer than their dude counterparts. Sorry, guys, it's just the truth.)
3. I get to have girlfriends! I am not dissing my friends who are guys here either, obviously, but - seriously, you don't know how angry I get when I hear people say that girls are always bitchy and backstabbing with each other, because not only is it misogynistic, it is just a flat-out lie. I honestly do not know what I would do without all my amazing female friends. Including, of course, most of you guys.
4. I can reach the high-pitched notes necessary for proper shrieking in glee without having to have had important bits of my anatomy removed in childhood!
5. I do not have the cooties I would have had, had I had the misfortune to be born male.
I encourage people to add things to the list!
