Post by sharondipity on Mar 16, 2007 9:44:18 GMT -5
I often think to myself "Just what the heck was I thinking when I chose to be born a girl?". I feel even today in the year 2007, that it's still a man's world. It just drives me nuts how there's so much pressure as a woman to be ladylike, not to swear, to just look pretty, let people boss us around, to get sillicone implants, to constanly please others, dress in skimpy clothing, etc. What a load of BS and stress! This makes me wish I wasn't a woman at all. I've always been envious of guys and how they can easily get away with espressing themselves more, such as being able to express anger, being able to act wilder, being able to swear, having people take them seriously, being valued for more than just their looks, having role models. etc. Well, that's what I get for living in a patriarchal society (I live in the US)!
I just think it's really sad how Amercian society still puts pressure on us girls and women , and yes rewards us to be obidient sex objects just to be valued and loved. If you look around in popular music, men's magazines, the media, advertising and all that, You'll see what I mean. I just get so depressed about all this. I just can't help but let this really bother me. I have issues of wanting to be liked by people, but I also don't wanna sell my soul either.
I wish so much I can be wild an expressive, yet still be liked by people regardless of being a woman.
I often feel so trapped because of all the pressure I feel I have to be ladylike and just to "be good" (as a female). I just get so tired of having to be so good and so nice all the time. I feel if I ever act all wild and crazy nobody would like me.
Like most women, I've been raised to be nice, polite, ladylike, non-expressive, non-aggressive, etc. Nothing wrong with being nice, but I can't be a doormat either.
For the longest time I've felt like I've had no voice. The key to gaining power is to feel like you have a voice, or to have one.
I also live in a French-Catholic small town in Nothern Maine (in the US) where it is downright religious and where women are pretty much second class to men. Women don't express themselves very much where I live. It's guys who pretty much run the whole show. Trust me, I grew up with an over- protective father and a macho brother and having to put up with his obnoxious friends, so I know what it's like to be a "girl in the shadows".
I just feel like I've been in the shadows for so long, I feel so silent and oppressed and I most certainly need an outlet for my pain about these issues I have.
I'm sure alot of girls and women who came from religious comunities of small towns here in the US who feel the same way.
It is my greatest dream to become empowered, regardess of living in a small Frech Catholic town, regardless of how I've been raised, and regardless of living in a patriarchal culture. I don't care what the rules are, I just want my indipendence.
It really pisses me off when many gals say things like "Oh it's just a man's world". I mean, it doesn't have to be that way. It's that way because we are all being brainwashed or something. Some people have to break the mold somewhere. I feel there's too much conformity going on, especially with women.
I just wish all the partriarchal power in the culture I live in would just cruble and crash to the ground so gals like me could gain a voice, and yes, become empowered.
I just think it's really sad how Amercian society still puts pressure on us girls and women , and yes rewards us to be obidient sex objects just to be valued and loved. If you look around in popular music, men's magazines, the media, advertising and all that, You'll see what I mean. I just get so depressed about all this. I just can't help but let this really bother me. I have issues of wanting to be liked by people, but I also don't wanna sell my soul either.
I wish so much I can be wild an expressive, yet still be liked by people regardless of being a woman.
I often feel so trapped because of all the pressure I feel I have to be ladylike and just to "be good" (as a female). I just get so tired of having to be so good and so nice all the time. I feel if I ever act all wild and crazy nobody would like me.
Like most women, I've been raised to be nice, polite, ladylike, non-expressive, non-aggressive, etc. Nothing wrong with being nice, but I can't be a doormat either.
For the longest time I've felt like I've had no voice. The key to gaining power is to feel like you have a voice, or to have one.
I also live in a French-Catholic small town in Nothern Maine (in the US) where it is downright religious and where women are pretty much second class to men. Women don't express themselves very much where I live. It's guys who pretty much run the whole show. Trust me, I grew up with an over- protective father and a macho brother and having to put up with his obnoxious friends, so I know what it's like to be a "girl in the shadows".
I just feel like I've been in the shadows for so long, I feel so silent and oppressed and I most certainly need an outlet for my pain about these issues I have.
I'm sure alot of girls and women who came from religious comunities of small towns here in the US who feel the same way.
It is my greatest dream to become empowered, regardess of living in a small Frech Catholic town, regardless of how I've been raised, and regardless of living in a patriarchal culture. I don't care what the rules are, I just want my indipendence.
It really pisses me off when many gals say things like "Oh it's just a man's world". I mean, it doesn't have to be that way. It's that way because we are all being brainwashed or something. Some people have to break the mold somewhere. I feel there's too much conformity going on, especially with women.
I just wish all the partriarchal power in the culture I live in would just cruble and crash to the ground so gals like me could gain a voice, and yes, become empowered.