TigerLily
I am a female. I do not need anyone to tell me I am more. I do not need anyone to tell me that I am less. I am who I am. You cannot change me, and I do not want you to. I do not need anyone else in order to feel whole. I am strong. You cannot tell me who I am, what I am, what I stand for, why I do what I do in my life. I have reasons you can never understand. I have feelings you can never grasp.
This is because I am unique from any other person, male or female, on this planet, in this lifetime. I have friends and acquaintances I can relate to-understand...to an extent. But, just as they can never totally understand me, I cannever total understand them. But, I try and just accept reality.
You want me to be everywhere, doing everything. I cannot. I am but one person. And this one person will try to make a difference in the places I can, the places I so choose. Don't choose my battles for me, because I will only cast you off. I need to learn on my own when, where and how to fight. Just because I am sure and because I am female, that does not mean I know all of these things. I have my weak points, but I am also stronger than you can ever imagine.
You do not know the things I have gone through in my life. You do not know of the mental thoughts I have, the mental pictures that I take, the mental jewelry that I wear. I am not as I seem, nor am I what I see. I am me. And I can ask for no more or less than that.
You do not know the characteristics I keep inside. The parts of me, of my past, that you will never see would shock you. But, you will never know them. Why? Because. It is reality. Accept it.
In the Bible, it is stated than God created man, then woman, and that woman should be subserviant because we were created from the rib of man. That is a nice sentiment in theory, but in actuality, it is very demeaning. Who bore Cain and Able? I am not saying woman are superior, but there is equality. Both sexes have strengths. Both sexes have weaknesses. We must all learn to work together.
What is the point to this? To let anyone out there who really cares to know what I think of being a female. It is said that today's girls are not given as many chances, as many opportunties. I think, just as with males, they are just not taken the ones given to them.
Life is not handed to you on a silver platter. You must take it, and just as you learned in kindergarten with the Play-Doh, you must shape it, must mold it, in order to make something of it. Otherwise, it is just a lump sitting there on the table, drying out. And what good is dried out Play-Doh?
Why am I making analogies between life and Play-Doh? Because, to someone, it will make sense. To someone, it will click, what it is I'm trying to say.
I've been told life just kind of happens. I disagree. Things happen to set up the opportunity for people to make choices. From this, your life evolves. This is regardless whether you are male or female. Why should anyone miss out on life because they feel they are being treated unfairly because of their sex?
When you first began to read, who did you read of? Dick and Jane and their cute little dog. Thus begins the thought that males and females are equal. Too bad it cannot last through out one's life.
"I am a work in progress,
dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding, offering me intricte
patterns of questions, rhythms that never come clean, and
strengths that you still haven't seen..."
Ani DiFranco