It's okay to be girlie!!!!

Hey cyber people,
Ever find that sometimes it's looked down on to act girlie? Giggle too much and people think your an airhead, or talk a lot about fasion and people think your vain. But your not, thats just your personality or behaviours. There is nothing wrong with them.

I've often found that people still have a tendency to push certain gender stereotypes on others. For example, ever go to a dinner party and all the women are in the kitchen cleaning up and the men out on the couch watching TV? Or had your mom call you to help her with dinner while your bother goes to play video games? That stuff is completely unfair and I totally disagree with those behaviours. Personally, I think it's absolutely ridiculous for women who have a career to also have to take full responsibility for the household. So just so your certain before I go on, I do not advocate that men and women need to fulfill traditional roles. We need to do what we are called to do, what we feel best at and it is unwise to assume that just because I enjoy baking, my sister does too!

Yet at the same time, pushing gender stereotypes is just as harmful as dissing them; sometimes it seems as if the traditional women's roles are looked down upon as less signifcant. Running a household and looking after children is probably the most difficult and thankless role in the world, but some women (and men, but we're just talking us girls now) do it by choice. Women who choose to run homes, have a hot meal on the stove for when their husbands comes home, are not to be looked down upon as hindering the advancement of women in the world. We should not be defined by whether or not we earn a wage. Women have every right to choose whatever path they want to take in life to fulfill their God given destiny. And they deserve every respect and appreciation for whatever role their choose, be it traditional or not.

So go ahead, have fun wearing makeup, putting a dress on, baking a cake, cooking a meal, dreaming about having a houseful of babies- there is nothing wrong with those things. Sometimes it feels like us girls have been so shaped to view some of those activities as holding less value but that's completely untrue. Ever have the experience of meeting a woman who seems to shun all typical 'female' roles and acts as if she's above it all, totally not for her, and makes you feel bad about liking that stuff? Don't feel bad because God gave you those desires and people who act hostile towards them probably used to be just like you but started to believe the lies about those things lacking worth or they were hurt by someone when they attempted to act in that capacity.

So just be yourself. Try not to make assumptions about others and encourage others to follow whatever desires God has placed into their hearts.