It basically was a normal day. I got up, missed breakfast because I overslept, and went to class. While I was filming something for a major class I have to take, something had to be moved. A big set piece. I got up to go help move it, when someone yelled “Can we get some boys over here?” I kind of thought, okay but there are like four of us girls over here. We can totally move it. The little feminist in my head kicked in and it kind of pained me. The fact that someone thought we couldn’t move the set piece sent a little twinge of anger from my stomach to my head. Then it got me thinking, if they think that we are incompetent to lift things, what else shouldn’t we do? So, I compiled a list of things women shouldn’t do because we are much, much too dainty (featuring some cute cats for the serious readers enjoyment).
1. Go Shopping:
I mean wow, it’s a wonder that they let us out to do the grocery shopping. Some of those items are canned. Do you know how heavy canned items can be? I mean I love my soup as much as the next girl, but come on. How do you expect us to carry multiple bags that have multiple items in them? Don’t even throw milk in there, that is just the end all be all. My feeble little arms will start shaking at the thought of throwing milk in the mix.
2. Be Bigger Than Our Ideal Size:
I am a size 8/10. Stop. The. Press. I mean obviously I don’t do activities that keep me moving, or eat healthy if I’m a size or to bigger than I want to be. Women should always be perfect and not down on themselves when they are a bit bigger. I shouldn’t love the body I’m in, and just always work for the perfect one right? Not to mention I’m in college. I mean between sleeping, and eating, and studying, and group work, and meetings my priority should be bettering my body right? I mean I am a woman, we eat rainbows and poop butterflies … i.e right now I shouldn’t be sitting writing this, I should be working out, because I’m not a size six.
3. Handle Important Projects:
My female mind sometimes slips up. I mean make me head of a project, and I’m sure to screw it up. It’s not like this is 2016 and more women are going to college than ever. It doesn’t matter that my freshman year I immediately got on the Deans List. It doesn’t matter that our current First Lady has degrees from two Ivy League schools. Don’t hand me an important project. I’ll just forget about it because I’m too preoccupied with makeup and dresses.
4. Change Our Hair:
Oh you like it this way? Good! Of course I’ll keep it! It’s not like I’m tired of it or anything. I’ve only had it this way for almost 5 years. You don’t think I’ll look good with bangs? That’s okay, I don’t mind having one layer consistently. Obviously it doesn’t annoy me at all or get stuck in my backpacks, in people’s arms when I hug them, or in doorways if it is a fast closing door. Oh the color? Of course I won’t change it to something fun if YOU don’t like it. I’m a woman. What do I know?
5. Have A High Powered Job:
Oh silly me, of course we can’t work on Wall Street. How do you expect me to calculate all those numbers? A Sargent? Oh please, don’t expect me to have to tackle, or exert force on someone that’s breaking the law, I might break a nail. Don’t expect me to even have my own fashion brand, have a successful blog, run an online store, write for a living or be a mother. Those are just dreams that are slowly floating away because I’m an incompetent woman.
Stop trying to put down women for things “perceived” that she can’t do. I may have not been able to lift that set piece by myself, but neither could have a man. Maybe I’ll need help reaching something on a shelf, but that’s not a woman thing, that’s a height thing. Maybe I’ll need help on homework, that’s a me not understanding a subject thing, not a woman thing. Stop labeling women for things that were stereotypes in the past. Its 2016. Act like it.
This has been a sarcastic rant by a college woman.
