Most Girls

I watched this music video today about the idea of “Most Girls”. Men glorify when women are not like most girls.  The song written by Hailee Steinfield talks about how she wants to be like most girls because most girls are smart and strong and beautiful.  She embraces how women should want to be like each other because all women truly are magnificent. People idolize and want to be like most men.  The idea of how men are strong and smart is so woven in our society and to be like most men is a good thing.  But to be like most girls is somehow bad. It installs this idea at least in my mind that if you shouldn’t be like most girls than to be a girl is a bad thing that you shouldn’t strive to be like a girl.  It pits women against each other and makes them almost hate one another. In reality, women are amazing and have so many strong and smart traits.  They are resilient and intelligent and peaceful and strong and resourceful and strong minded and so many other wonderful things that should be celebrated.  I would be honored to be like most girls.

Growing up I would feel insulted when someone would say I was like most girls. I would feel the need to separate myself from the stereotype of being a girl when I shouldn’t have tried to separate myself from all women.  I love that I am a woman!  I love my womanly body and my womanly mind and my womanly abilities.  Being a woman is so fucking awesome and I want to scream it from the rooftops.  Don’t let yourself believe that being like most girls or acting like a woman is a bad thing because it is wonderful.