Perhaps I am some sort of feminist at heart. Perhaps I am trying to fight the good fight - fight everyone else's fight. Maybe I am just tired of people making comments without thinking or without mallice and yet that is what they are. Maybe I am just too hard on everybody else. Maybe my expectations are unreachable.

But when I hear people calling themselves a sissy - it really gets my blood boiling. Because it is things like that - comments like that, that help to mold and shape who we become. And it is also those comments that create negative self images in us, and help to perpetuate the stereotypes we have worked hard to eliminate.

A sissy is one of the worst comments to make. Parents call there sons that when they are trying to insult them. Kids use it to tease other kids at school to make a point. And the bottom line, is that they are insulting there "manhood" by calling them something which typically descibes a woman.

Why is it that it is so terrible to be a woman? Or to show "feminine" traits? Perhaps if more men did, then woman would be more willing to try. But instead... they have to be macho and tough and strong. Such nonsense.

And then they finally let it go and show emotion other than anger and then they are thought to be sissy's. Because let's face it - that's what girls do - cry.  ¶ 8:55 AM