Re: Girls on girls (no, it's not what you think)

[Scattybird]

When I was a kid I was always described as a ‘tomboy’. Maybe it was because I grew up with an older brother. But my Mother always encouraged my interests and she was always interested in different things – never the usual mumsy things of the times, although I couldn’t fault her as a caring mother.

As a kid, any dolls I had used to be tied up as backup team members when we climbed dangerous mountains (the stairs in the dark!) or were ignored. Other girls I knew dressed theirs up and combed their hair – WTF was THAT about!

I remember being acutely aware that I was different from the other girls at school – they loved to play with dolls and play at having tea parties. I preferred to climb trees and play catch or fight with the boys. As I got older, the girls liked to go to the shops and gossip about….well I don’t know what about. I hate shops.

At college my friendship group consisted of males and females but I had more in common with the guys.

Now, I have very few really good friends but oddly the two that are closest are both women. They are both very different from each other and don’t know each other. But they are similar in that they are not at all like the women I know at work or as neighbours. They have interests in their lives and accept me for what and who I am.

Perhaps that’s it – other women I know seem to want me to live my life as they think I should and that makes me mad as hell. They don’t ‘get me’ but want to change me whereas my two friends have quirks too and accept me for me.

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