Let's Rant, Everyone: Let Girls Live

           

           I'm so done with girls' lives being policed left and right. We need to be a million things at once, fit into tons of moulds, live up to everyone's expectations. It's exhausting. Just let me liiiiiiiiiiive, just let us live. Let us be free and weird, let us be wild, let us be quiet, let us be sensitive, let us be tough, let us be smart, smarter, the smartest person in the room. We live in a society that is in a constant  flow of change and in order to make sense of the world around us we feel a need to put everything and everyone into boxes, into categories and women, girls suffer the consequences of that categorization most harshly. We're constantly being sent mixed messages on what we should be, how we should act, what we should like. Those mixed messages has sent generations of young girls for a spin and forced them to grew up with warped visions of themselves and the world around them. Girls that are growing up with low self-esteem and a real lack of self-confidence that affects them in every aspect of their lives, not just how they see themselves physically, but how they see themselves as a whole. This lack of self confidence keeps them away from opportunities because they grow up believing they're not good enough for them.

                Let's also mention the fact that anything that associated with girlhood is immediately seen as less than, from bands to TV shows to movies, and if a man dares to enjoy said things he is seen as less of a man, as feminine - because you can't have testosterone running through your veins and enjoy rom-coms, am I right?  Why are traditionally feminine things bad? They're not. And neither are things that are not traditionally feminine. It's just life. If you're not doing anything illegal or hurting anyone, who cares how you live your life?! The only person that should be concerned with that is yourself... And maybe, just maybe, your parents. Other than that, you do you. You live your life the way you see fit, not the way other people see fit and if anyone has an issue with it, then let them have an issue with it. It's their problem, not yours and it's your life, not theirs.