Guess what!!! I am a girl!!!! And you know what else???? I'm a very feminine girl. And furthermore, I am quite pleased with the fact that I am a feminine girl. It suits me, I wear it well. In fact, I completely relish in my femininity. I enjoy being a girl!
What I don't enjoy is people who think that because I am a girl, because I am feminine I must not know anything. I really don't enjoy that because I'm a girl people assume that I have no intelligence and no business sense and do not do my due diligence. Do I know everything there is to know? Of course not. But I do know what I don't know and I do know how to find out what I don't know. I also know how to do my due diligence. I also know how to do my research. I also know that have a good brain, and I am intelligent and I know how to use my good brain. I also know not to swallow everything hook, line and sinker.
But what really riles me is the assumption and the patronization and condescension that comes with it that because I am a girl I am somehow intellectually flawed. And so I feel the need to say this: I am intelligent, I am proud of my intelligence and you might want to think twice or take a second look because before you assume that I'm not. I do not enjoy my credibility to integrity being challenged and when you make the assumption that because I am a girl I cannot be intelligent you are challenging a) my intelligence, b) my integrity and c) my credibility and I do not take kindly to that. In fact, do that and I lose a ton of respect for you immediately. So...think carefully my friends...
Those who do that obviously don't know you, have not taken the time or effort to get to know you and are not worth your time or effort to have to explain your self. Be confident in who you are and what 'others' think should be of no consequence to you. And, ya, unfortunately there are still those out there who think 'girls' are dumb and belong barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. Those are the very same people who are still living in the stone age and have no clue that those 'girls' have evolved in to intelligent strong women who are a force to be recconed with. Stay true to you and don't give a second thought to the small minds that see you as something you are not.
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