NTTCR "Like a Girl"

meredithcarole

I watched this video this morning. I thought it was really thought provoking. https://www.buzzfeed.com/candacelowry/this-emotional-compaign-aims-revolutionizes-the-phrase-like

lgsdesigner

That is very interesting. I agree with the campaign 100% though. There are a ton of stereotypes still to this day towards women, and we need to stop.

A lot of my friends question why I am a weightlifter saying "That's what men do" or "it's a man's sport". No...it's a STRONG person's sport.

MelissaMiso

I am so grateful that my parents raised me to "kick some ass" every time I engaged in sports, not to let anyone tell me that I was "less than" but rather use that as motivation to prove them wrong. I played ice hockey with the boys because there were no girl teams around. I would even get flak from some of my teammates but once they saw how good I was, I gained their respect.

KateLouise

What I hate about, "like a girl" is that it's so meaningless. I'm a bit crap at sport. If I'm trying to throw a ball then I will genuinely try to throw it as well as I can, and while my aim and direction will be good I don't have either the technique or strength to get good distance. But because I'm a bit crap at throwing doesn't mean I throw more or less like a girl than the woman next to me.

Recently my SIL told her son, who was crying about something, to, "stop being a girl." I turned to my daughter and said, "there's nothing wrong with being a girl." SIL said, "there is if you're a boy." Later I thought to myself, "but he wasn't being a girl. He may have been crying, over-reacting, being sensitive (or whatever her issue was) but he was not being a girl." Again it's such a vague and meaningless statement, but the key part is that it's an insult.

What stood out to me in that clip was that the adults who demonstrated doing things like a girl, had an underlying sense of being watched, and how they appeared. That girls are taught to look cute and ditsy and like they're not really trying to be good at sport, because first and foremost they need to care what people (and let's face it we mean boys) are thinking of them. So they therefore wouldn't want to get sweaty, dirty or to screw their face up with concentration or effort.