I wrote this in response to the speech down below from the Barbie Movie. Being a woman is hard, I think a lot of you know that. When you are young you learn about the injustices and it breaks a little part of you. But eventually, it heals for the most part and you try your darned hardest to get all you can manage from your curtstances. And I am luckily where I live, a lot of women die for their hair not being covered or just for being a woman.
It breaks my heart that little girls think the world is there for the taking or know it isn't and their little hearts breaking over the world. I pray for a better world for the next generation and they can be horrified at the caliver ways that the last generation was treated and how they tell their stories.
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"It is literally impossible to be a woman," You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.
"You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.
"You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood. But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful. You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.
"I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us," And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don't even know."
Barbie was waking up in the morning and life was good because it was plastic. It was still hard to be a woman. The makeup had to be just right, not too unnatural but not too much so she looked like a nightmare with pores. The dance was not new to Barbie, she had many years to perfect it. She was comfortable with who she was. A woman.
Stacie was waking up and getting ready for the day. She was not looking forward to getting ready for the day. She was tired of being a woman. Just a year ago boys started to notice that she was a girl. Worst of all men started noticing. Then just all the pressure to be good at what the men were good at but you have to look good while doing it. A million and one things just made being a woman a nightmare and Stacie was tired.
Today it was nice to wear a baggy sweatshirt with her body not showing in it. It never was quite enough, she could tell she was a woman. Her hair and her body could never go away no matter how hard she tried with clothes and hair ties.