First thing's first, i don't like being a girl. Sometimes it feels awesome, but the other times it just feels hindered. Like everything is limited for me. When someone wants to know more about someone, the first thing they do is talk to them. Now being a girl that is what I cant do very often, considering the ones I want to know more about are rikshaw-wallas, paan-wallas, small artisans who sell their goods at cheap rates to avoid competition. I want to know how they survive the competition, how they spend their free time, what kind of food they eat et al. So being a girl you can't just sit beside them and talk because it 'looks wierd' and most of all they might have the 'buri nazar'. I realised this impedence when i started reading Shantaram. If the author was a girl, he couldn't have done all those things. Or maybe it is only the Indian girl who feels hindered. Even after 66 years of what we call freedom, here I am writing this, well, write up about being a girl. I sometimes think that had I been a guy, I could've gone for walks at 2AM being battered by a 3 hour test, or atleast my friends wouldn'n discuss about clean-ups and blackheads, and moreover i could walk away when i pretty well pleased. That is what being a girl includes, life by rules. When with family you follow the 'Family protocol' of not texting continously or else it would be assumed that there must be something fishy, with friends you follow the 'Friend Protocol' of listening to everything the fellow girlfriend says and nod in agreement. After all, their boyfriends wont listen to that crap, and thats when they need the kind ear to listed to their 'Waist Worries'. How do I get by? Well I have an image of The Tomboy In The Group, so that cuts me some slack. But then, I also feel happy about being a girl, because then I wont have to deal with girls for the rest of my life. And with no offence to anybody, I want to say that its not the 'gender' I have a problem with, its the ideology which has been stereotyped as girly, which I, very explicitly, have used to write my first blog. The Feminist that I am, I think its not your gender or the way you dress up that makes you girly or Tomboy, its where your head is, and just because alot of girls follow that ideology(I think what kind of ideology I mean is obvious) it is called girly or 'chique' as it is popularly known.
....And i dont know how to conclude this so, im just going to say, that PLEASE do not be limited by what others think of you or what you think you are SUPPOSED to do.
....And i dont know how to conclude this so, im just going to say, that PLEASE do not be limited by what others think of you or what you think you are SUPPOSED to do.
