How being a girl aggravates me

In this blog post, I want to focus on the parts of being a girl that aggravate me. This has a lot to do with the blog post called “Stereotypes” where I wrote about these types of stereotypes, with an unintentional story time. That is not to say that there’s not parts of being a girl that I LIKE. Surely, there’s a lot to appreciate too! That will be a separate blog post. However it is not the topic of this important focus.

1. Obviously I think the first one, given with what I said, is stereotypes themselves. However there’s probably a lot of different types that will be covered throughout the course of this list/blog post. The first one can be the sports stereotype that I wrote about, however really they underlying factor here is: the overall stereotype/misogyny, that leads me to feel like I am incapable, incompetent, and can’t do anything.

2. Or accomplish anything, for that matter. So in the school/career sense.

3. This has to do with the yearssssssssss of oppression. Which I did write about in the stereotypes blog post.

4. The assuming that I am incapable and dumb and need everything done for me. This can range from something such as reading a map, or knowing a lot about topics that maybe a lot of guys love to nerd in? (Like history, for example. Even though I love history, took away a lot in the two APs I took in high school, and those were my two favorite classes, and ever since then, would and will study it in my free time for fun). Honey, not everything is analogical. Just because you’re stronger, doesn’t automatically make you smarter. Or even carrying a bag or something?

5. Little stereotypes too. Pink. Bows. How was I made to hate everything girly? Why do these things have to be girly? The pink and blue for girls and boys, from birth. Girls gentle. Boys rough. Defense. Offense. Protected. Protectors. Provided for. Providers. How I hate stereotypes. Especially when they’re “right.” Not that I can’t like pink, but when it’s made to be something that I’m expected and force to like just because that’s just what was decided, combined with all the other factors, stereotypes, and oppression? Yeah, that aggravates me. That’s the problem. That’s the essence of it. It’s not that you can’t like these things or that the stereotypes can’t render to be true. They do, because they’re patterns and trends. It’s that they’re in place, with everything else attached to them, like some horrible expectation, tied down, and with baggage.

6. Was watching Bridgerton, and noticed something I somehow never noticed before? In other words, yes I noticed before, I had watched it before, but somehow didn’t actually notice or see what was right in front of me. The conversation that happens between that one girl that Benedict draws (S2) where before, she was a model for his painting, but he discovers her drawing on her own. Saying being a model, basically used as an object, was the only way she was able to get into the school and learn cause otherwise, she was not allowed to. All in secrecy and treachery. Tricks and lies. Not that anyone even knew that she was secretly “learning.” If they did, what would that mean? What would that lead to? Not to mention she was drawing all alone in that room. No one could be in the room at the same time. She was doing something so horrible? She had to be all alone.

7. Oh here’s a big one. Having to be walked home? Um excuse me what? I’m not able to walk? Feel safe? Am I not human then? These are pretty basic human rights and demands.