This is autobiographical of course. This is me as a girl - constantly frustrated at missing out on what the boys were doing because they had so much more fun. I was a Brownie and my brother was a Boy Scout. He got to go canoeing while I walked on tin cans with string attached to them and learned to sew.
I figured ways around it though - like borrowing my brother's shorts and changing out of the pretty dress my mother had chosen for me once I got to school. Then I was free to hang upside down on the monkey bars and kick the footy around with the boys on the oval at lunchtime.
I feel sorry for her, ending up with a girl like me. Luckily my mother was a bit of a feminist deep down so eventually she stopped trying to make me behave like a girl.
Image: Author. Digital collage with drawing.
And there are still girls fighting for the right to wear shorts at school, ,I was just reading about some school in NZ where they have to see the counsellor before choosing to wear pants
ReplyDeleteby the way, i hate the modern idea of putting a kind of modesty shorts on girls when they wear dresses, it's meant to de-sexualise them but I feel like it works the opposite way. It's a hobby horse of mine tho, nobody else seems concerned
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