Girly? NOT!

[memelaina]

ArwenSouth made me do it:

You Are 20% Girly

Um... you're a guy, right? If not, you're the most boyish girl in the world. And for you, that's probably the ultimate compliment.

How Girly Are You?

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[arwensouth.livejournal.com]

And if you say that a little girl is "smart" or "clever" or "has a good sense of humor," many people will think, "Wow, she must really be ugly!"

Yes, for all the strides women have made in the last 50 years or so, there are still areas where we have lots of room for improvement. I remember being really incensed some number of years ago when they came out with sets of Legos "for girls". If the only difference had been that the colors were different, it probably wouldn't have bothered me so much. But the biggest difference that I saw was that the vast majority of the pieces were not individual bricks that could be used to build anything you wanted, but rather sections and furnishings that would let you, for example, put together a doll house. The message I got was that "girls aren't smart enough to be able to take Lego bricks and build walls or chairs or tables for their doll houses, so we have to do it for them." Well, that and "we know little girls are only interested in building doll houses. They would never want to use their building blocks to make space ships or cars or airplanes or skyscrapers or anything else..."

Grrr....