I’m not like other girls. Says every female protagonist. You’re not like other girls. Says every male love interest.
Well, you know what? I’m proud to be like a girl, I am proud to be a girl. There’s no such thing as ‘other girls’ as if we’re all only one thing, 2D, flat on a slab.
There is no one way to be a girl. Other girls might be more beautiful than me, inside and out. Or I might be more beautiful than them. They might be sexier, braver, bolder. They might be better at art or writing or singing and dancing.
Other girls might discover the cure for diseases. Other girls might go into space someday or write the next bestseller. They could be artists or doctors or writers or lawyers or musicians or presidents. They could be anything. Except me.
Other girls are my best friends, the people I can turn to when I’m down. Other girls are my sisters, my friends, my family. The people I can trust.
I am not like other girls. For everything that they are more than me - more outgoing, more intelligent, more pretty, more funny, more witty, more caring - they are also less in other ways.
I am not like other girls. No girl is like other girls. We are us, we are more and we are less than other girls in a hundred myriad ways. More or less. It balances out in the end: no other girl is better than me, I’m no better than any other girl.
We are who we are.
And that goes for girls told they were girls at birth, and the ones who had to claim it for themselves. You are not like other girls. It goes for girls of every colour, of every ability and every age. You are not like other girls. You are you.
Do not feel that you must hate your own gender and everything it stands for. They will tell you that to be girly, to like pink, or make-up or clothes is to be bitchy, to be weak, to be shallow. I say look past that at the depths of all you can be. Regardless of whether you are a girly-girl or not, we share this name together.
To the female protagonists and the male love interests, let’s say: stop using this fact as an insult to others. As a way to look down on other girls and sneer at them. These other girls you so laugh at are your support and you are theirs. You’re not like them no, but they are not like you either. Other girls are amazing, pretty, wonderful. Let’s celebrate that I am not like other girls and nether is she, or her, or her.
We are all girls who are not like other girls. We are all girls. We are all simply ourselves. Let’s see us supporting each other.
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