I like being a girl. Of course there's the downsides like getting a period and bitching at people for no reason because if it. But overall I'm just fine with it. I have never felt inferior to men. I'm also happy that I have the opportunity to go to university, whereas years ago I probably would have been forced to marry young, have a family, and be a housewife. That's not the kind of life that I want!
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Originally Posted by Tea Supremacist
And another reason why I like being a girl. I'm pretty happy with the fact that one day my other half and I will start a family and that I will be the one seeing it through, physically. I'll be the one to feel it move and feel it's first kick (Kind of feel sorry for my partner a little tbh). Having sat through my sisters two horrific labours with her, knowing the pain I'll go through still doesn't even bother me because it's insignificant to what's to come.
It may be corny as hell, but for me, being the one to have the opportunity to actually physically bring a life into the world is the best bit about being female.
Man, I am broody as fu ck 
As for the points bought up earlier about having to shave and having to wear make up, I don't feel that I have to, but I do it because I want to. It just feels.... Nice. It's very rare I'll leave the house without at least some mascara on (I'm lucky enough that my hair is short and curly so actually needs NO tending to at all, giving more time on concentrating on not poking myself in the eye with eyeliner), but strangely, I'll willingly walk to the shop in my pyjamas. I'm too lazy to get dressed to go and buy a newspaper, but God forbid I make my PJ trek to the shop with no make up on! |
I agree with you on the pregnancy thing. My parents were married for ten years before I was born (I'm the oldest - I have a younger brother). I remember my mom telling me that she couldn't wait to have a baby and go through that experience, but that she almost gave up after too many negative test results. I was the baby my parents thought they were never going to have.
I think pregnancy is beautiful and it's a natural occurence in the cycle of life. I'm sorry if you think otherwise, but remember this: a lot of women want to experience being pregnant but some of them may never have the chance because of fertility problems or other complications. It bothers me a little when people say that it's gross or whatever. Your mom went through it to give you life! And I'm not saying that every woman should have babies - that's a personal choice of course. It's great that women today can choose when/if they want to get pregnant by taking the pill. It doesn't protect you from STI's though!
About the makeup and shaving: I wear makeup and shave because I WANT TO. Not because it's the social norm for a woman. Wearing makeup is something that I do to make me look good and to let other people know that I take care of myself and I care about looking good and not like I just got out of bed. I don't wear a lot of makeup either - just some mascara, eyeliner, lipstick and occasionally some eyeshadow. But I don't cake it on like some women do. That just looks so cheesy, ugly, and a bit pretentious to me, like you're trying too hard to impress people.
I do think it would be interesting to be a man, if only for a day or something.