I am a feminist! I believe in rights for women everywhere. I don’t think women should be oppressed or downtrodden. That’s wrong. I am not, however, a feminist in the colloquial sense of the word. I am painfully girly. Modern feminists don’t seem girly to me. Like at all. I’m probably just repeating a cliche, but modern feminists seem to be trying to prove they’re just as strong as men by becoming more like them. Can you say ironic? They’re upholding women’s rights and putting men down, while adopting a faux-man macho attitude. I’m envisioning a future full of unisex clothing departments and a booming daycare business. Or maybe not so booming. Anyway, boys and girls are different! It drives me bonkers when boys treat girls like they’re one of the guys, and girls go along with it. This happens a LOT with my friends. I know we’re not living in 19th century America, we’re not supposed to act like we’re living in the 19th century, I wouldn’t like to be living in the 19th century, but there are some morals and parts of the culture that I wish we could have kept with us. Men and women have like, zero respect for each other anymore. Even many of my Christian girlfriends have some weird ideas about feminism and women’s roles in our culture. I don’t have it all figured out, but I do know this. When in doubt, think pink*!!
*not the feminist group pink, or Victoria’s Secret Pink (although I do adore their T-shirt and perfume line!!!), or the singer Pink, or communists, but just the plain old girly pink color. I don’t know any boy who likes that.
Kelly, great post! But, don’t you remember a few years ago when guys started wearing pink…pink belts, shirts, shoes….ugh! I thought they all looked strange. Haven’t seen it lately, so the fad must have faded.
Kelly, I like, agree with you. Like, totally.
grrr…. I typed a smile after my comment and it didn’t come through. So, picture a smile on my face.
Haha Ruthie… I think it’s strange too! A pink tie is as far as they can go without weirding me out.
Like, thanks!!!
I loved the video that you sent of the men’s group! they were amazing!
But salmon… that’s okay. I have a very nice salmon shirt. [smile]
~Luke
It is my strongly held conviction that one is truly a manly man only if he is manly enough to wear pink!
Stick to blue, green and brown….leave the girly colors to us girls.
I am sure you are right Ruthie. Lorena keeps threatening to buy me a pink dress shirt, but I would be QUITE happy to stick with blue, green, and brown!
So feminism is a religion, then?
Great post, Kelly! If I bought Thomas a pink shirt, he would tear it up and use it to clean his tools or something.
Lynn