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| Sunday, 4 August 2002 |
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There are all sorts of stereotypes that tell us how we should be. It seems that there are so many ways that us girls are supposed to feel. Among the feelings we're supposed to feel, there's inadequate. Unless of course, we have a man. There's dirty, unless of course we're pristine virgins. There's weak, unless of course we have a man behind us (on top of us?). There's useless, unless of course a man wants us (never needs us... we are just girls remember). There's bad. There's silly. There's ugly. There's fat. There's sad. There's stupid.
There are girls who think girly-girls are bad. There are girly-girls who think girls who don't shave their legs are icky. There are nice girls who think sexual girls are raunchy. There are sexual girls who think nice girls are frigid. The list goes on and on... us girls, all girls (nice, sexual, girly-girls, nature girls, riot-girls, even spice girls, etc), have to begin to accept ourselves and each other. We're continually pulling our collectiveness apart. We're supposed to hate each other. At a young age we're taught to hate our mothers, and sisters. At a young age we were taught to hate skinny, pretty girls, and hate being fat, and ugly. So no matter what side of the fence we're on we're supposed to hate whoever is on the other. That has to stop.
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It's okay to
love being a girl. It's okay to love yourself just the way you are.
Fashion magazines are always telling us we should lose weight or wear
different make-up. Our parents are telling us to dress "normal"
or just differently. Our friends tell us we should cut our hair, or wear
some lipstick. Our boyfriends drop not so subtle hints about our weight,
hair style, and choice of friends. We are all perfectly fine just the way
we are.
Well I'm not any of those things. I don't have a man. I'm happy just
the way I am. What makes me unhappy is every girl who struggles to be
something they're not.
We have to accept ourselves, we have to stop striving for a picture of
what we think we're supposed to be, and just be. We have to accept each
other. We have to start loving each other. Girl love isn't necessarily
about homosexuality. It's about loving yourself. It's about loving all
girls. This is about loving the being a girl part too. -by Teen Spirit
