Somewhere along the way growing up I missed a lot of girly-world. For instance, I never practiced giving an academy award acceptance speech. I never learned to correctly apply eye shadow. I never blow-dried my hair. While I was an avid reader of Teen and YM in middle school, once I quit those subscriptions I never signed up for Cosmo instead. I still don't own any lacy bras. I never had a manicure or pedicure until a few months ago. I've always had some girlie qualities. I can talk on the phone for hours, I love wearing cute skirts, and I love to gossip. But overall, I never qualified as girlie.
Sometime recently I realized I had become much more of a girlie girl. A few things were cues. Once, I lost my liquid eyeliner, and I flipped out! I actually stopped at CVS to buy a new one before going wherever I was going. Next, I found some cute tissues that were bright pink with flowers on them. My thought: "Oh my gosh, these are SO CUTE!" and then I promptly bought them. Third, when I folded a pile of my summer shirts and tank tops out of the laundry, I noticed that besides one brown shirt and one yellow tank top, the entire stack was all various shades of purple and pink.
I pretty much feel lame: who becomes more girly at the age of 22?? Most people are uber girlie when they are fourteen, and grow out of it by 22. I'm apparently throwing convention to the wind: the more professional and serious my career life gets, the more girlie I become. On the other hand, I'm not really losing old things I enjoyed, so there are some strange paradoxes. For instance, I'm an eyeliner obsessed Star Trek fan. Or, in one shopping trip I search for both a laptop with a 2.0 GHz processor and lipstick in the right shade to mach my purple earrings.
So, let this be a tribute to my late girlie-girl coming of age, including wearing a full face of makeup (foundation, blush, eyeshado, eyeliner, powder, mascara, lipstick, the works!) and feeling naked without it, falling in love with the colors pink and purple, wearing a significant amount of jewelry, reading Cosmo, owning multiple purses, dying for laser hair removal, changing my nail polish to match my outfits, loving pedicures, and using multiple hair products post-showering.
One request, however: If I ever wear TWO pieces of pink clothing at once, hang up a picture of a kitten, or wear anything with feathers, please drag me to a pit and throw me in a mud wrestling match.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Everybody Likes Girls
In my social psychology class in college, our professor told us that pretty women sell. "Look at magazines for men. What do you see? Lots of pictures of beautiful women. Look at magazines for women. What do you see? Lots of pictures of beautiful women."
I have a new piece to add to the "everybody likes girls" theory. In my search for an apartment, my ideal situation is to live with one or two girls. And I have noticed that pretty much everyone wants to live with one or two girls. Girls who post ads for apartments almost always are looking for female roommates. Even if they have one guy roommate already there, when they are looking for a second roommate they say things like "Sorry, has to be a girl, I don't want to live with two guys!"
Guys posting also want to live with girls. There are definitely some sketch-balls out there, like some guy who has repeatedly placed his ad looking for a female to share his room. He started out asking for $350 (in a fabulous part of North Jersey where a 1-bedroom usually goes for no less than $1600), also mentioning things like "Should be open to doing things like lounging in her underwear." While Mr. Wants-A-Piece-of-Ass says he's not looking for a girlfriend, he is clearly hardpressed to find a female to share his room, even though he has cut his price to $250 and deleted underwear comments from the ad.
In any case, there are tons of guys who have apartments who prefer female roommates. Why? One can only make some educated guesses. The 700 Club would probably say that these guys are looking to take advantage of a girl, or hopefully catch her in a revealing moment (ie in her skimpy towel between the bathroom and her room). I won't rule that out, but I'm betting there are also some more platonic motives. For instance, girls on the whole are cleaner than guys. Girls are far less likely to be dirty, and less likely to be messy (there is an important distinction between dirty -- ie starting an environment conducive to growing fungus -- and messy -- simply letting clutter pile up). Girls are probably more likely to cook. And while girls have more drama, they probably also are more likely to be the sweet, caring roommate that most people want.
My point: WOULD EVERYONE STOP TAKING WHAT I WANT?!?! I'm a girl, and I should get to live with a few nice girls. Whenever I see an ad where two or three fun/friendly/laid back girls are looking for another roommate, I know that everyone and most of their brothers are replying and hoping to live there. Sheesh. It makes my search quite difficult, when rooms listed for less than a day are already let by the time my email even gets opened.
Would everybody stop liking girls, please?? Just for a few days, so I can find somewhere to live!
I have a new piece to add to the "everybody likes girls" theory. In my search for an apartment, my ideal situation is to live with one or two girls. And I have noticed that pretty much everyone wants to live with one or two girls. Girls who post ads for apartments almost always are looking for female roommates. Even if they have one guy roommate already there, when they are looking for a second roommate they say things like "Sorry, has to be a girl, I don't want to live with two guys!"
Guys posting also want to live with girls. There are definitely some sketch-balls out there, like some guy who has repeatedly placed his ad looking for a female to share his room. He started out asking for $350 (in a fabulous part of North Jersey where a 1-bedroom usually goes for no less than $1600), also mentioning things like "Should be open to doing things like lounging in her underwear." While Mr. Wants-A-Piece-of-Ass says he's not looking for a girlfriend, he is clearly hardpressed to find a female to share his room, even though he has cut his price to $250 and deleted underwear comments from the ad.
In any case, there are tons of guys who have apartments who prefer female roommates. Why? One can only make some educated guesses. The 700 Club would probably say that these guys are looking to take advantage of a girl, or hopefully catch her in a revealing moment (ie in her skimpy towel between the bathroom and her room). I won't rule that out, but I'm betting there are also some more platonic motives. For instance, girls on the whole are cleaner than guys. Girls are far less likely to be dirty, and less likely to be messy (there is an important distinction between dirty -- ie starting an environment conducive to growing fungus -- and messy -- simply letting clutter pile up). Girls are probably more likely to cook. And while girls have more drama, they probably also are more likely to be the sweet, caring roommate that most people want.
My point: WOULD EVERYONE STOP TAKING WHAT I WANT?!?! I'm a girl, and I should get to live with a few nice girls. Whenever I see an ad where two or three fun/friendly/laid back girls are looking for another roommate, I know that everyone and most of their brothers are replying and hoping to live there. Sheesh. It makes my search quite difficult, when rooms listed for less than a day are already let by the time my email even gets opened.
Would everybody stop liking girls, please?? Just for a few days, so I can find somewhere to live!
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