June 27, 2014 - Written by: Guest Blogger

She Runs #LikeAGirl, She Writes #LikeAGirl

This morning I got up, didn’t bother showering, put my hair in a bun, shoved on my lycra combo and then ran 5K. After I finished, I had a protein bar, showered and dressed and put a bit of makeup on.

This sounds pretty standard doesn’t it? But what if we add a certain clause in…

This morning I got up, didn’t bother showering, put my hair in a bun, shoved on my lycra combo and then ran 5k like a girl. After I finished, I had a protein bar, showered and dressed and put a bit of makeup on.

See the difference?

Did my run suddenly become an image of arms flailing and my legs skipping wearily?

Somehow I have managed to insult myself by simply referring to the fact I did it LIKE A GIRL.

I’m probably not the first and not the last girl to be told that I do something like a girl.

I can even think back to when I was 15, being told by a lifeguard I probably throw like a girl, before hurling a tennis ball the length of a pool.

But HURRAH! Always (yes the silky sanitary towel people) are fighting back, attacking this statement and reinventing what it means to do something LIKE A GIRL in their new ad.

The wonderfully activist ad by award-winning filmmaker Lauren Greenfield speaks for itself, we use this phrase as an insult and it’s simply another attack on our self-esteem as women.

But thank flying elephants that the younger generations aren’t letting this attack on womanhood affect them!

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How can anyone think it’s okay to insult someone by referring to their gender?

There is a way to change this and it’s not from those who have been victims of acting ‘like a girl’ but by those who have used this phrase. STOP NOW.

Next time you even get a hint of thinking to insult someone using ‘like a girl’, just think that by doing so you are acting ‘like a sexist, narrow-minded, unfunny piece of turd’.

Love,

Daisy

*This piece was written like a girl (feisty and fucking determined).

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