NOT a girly-girl

 

 

 

 

Bad for boys to be feminine but good for girls to be masculine?

 

 Many girls feel a stigma attached to being “too girly” which really irks me. I want to explore why this stigma is there in my next posts.  I’m feeling

really angry about this right now, upset. I’ve just realized that when I was 4 I decided I liked purple better than pink. It wasn’t true. I really did prefer pink but I was trying not to be a girly girl. Being girly was embarrassing. It was uncool. Boys teased me and thought I was silly if I acted girly. Boys are never faced with a similar stigma about being a boy, I think. It is always okay for them to like blue or trucks. If they are particularly “macho” or boy-like this is fine too. Boys are taught to strongly resist being more ‘like a girl’ – being feminine.