Open Letter: Dear Femme

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by hippieflowergirl

i'm in high dudgeon at the mo' so excuse me. the fact that any of you amazing women has been shoved into the "less than" dressing room to find some culturally artificial (and not even decently tailored in order to actually be personal) shame to wear is pissing me off!

Gemmie-poo...like Medusa, Arwen, Diva and Bit...to me you're already so damn beautiful in words...i'm afraid of having to wear sunglasses in order to merely hang out with you. so let's drag that freakin' mirror down here to eye level. i'll get the step stool, you find the dust rag and we'll just haul it down and see what's so darn scary.

and for that reason, if no other, we should all be writing fairy tales that include the plain/ugly/nerdy/genderqueer/fat/or whatever sister kicking ass, taking names, falling in love only if she damn well feels like it, and living happily ever after.


just sayin'

No sunglasses required!

I've done some work on myself, so I'm at the point where I'm less adament in my defense of how horrid I am (usually) but it's more of an "Eh.." thing for me. People see the good things about me and are able to downplay or see past the less than brilliant things about me. Me? I see it all. Maybe because I live with it 24/7 and I tend to continually focus in on my problem areas (physically as well as emotionally and psychologically) so that the molehill becomes a mountain. But even the good things that I can recognize are like, "Well, I can write okay. I'm an okay person, morally 'n all."

I need to find a way to get excited about myself...about being ME. I'm sure it's in me somewhere. I just have to find that cheerleader part of me for myself. I think threads like this one and the Mirrors thread are helping me to maybe be able to do that in the future.