On being a girl.

It's so hot that the only way I can get any work done is to sleep through most of the day and work at night. My room is an OVEN. I have also taken to working in a bikini- it's what all the best scientists do. I heard.
However, it does mean that it is hot enough to wear summer dresses outside and flash my tiger striped legs to the world. The art of fake tanning is one of the skills girls are meant to have that I just don't, along with plucking my eyebrows (tearing the hair out of your face with metal sticks? are you mad?) and walking in high heels. I am attempting to rectify this: I have Johnson's holiday skin, just plucked half of one eyebrow (I only have the tweezers from my dissection kit and they're not working so well) and tidying my room wearing heels.
And what is it about summer that turns some men into slavering idiots? I took a short walk to the corner shop and the amount of comments I got was insane. I'd say it serves me right for wearing a skimpy dress when I am not exactly small of chest but fuck off, I'll wear what I want and it's my right not to be harrassed for it. An incident that occured on wednesday night along these lines shook me up a bit, but I think I'm over it now. As my friend Kate said, it's a pretty pathetic time when a girl can't walk around after dark on her own without fear of being attacked.

On the subject of being a girl, I watched that 'Find the new pussycat doll' programme on T4 this morning. Is this what young women aspire to now? Dancing round half naked in a style that is really only designed to appeal to men? And it is all about men: there first single was all about trying to steal another girl's boyfriend- not exactly girl power is it? (Amusingly, on the same albulm is a song entitled "I don't need a man" and then followed by "I want you back". Make your mind up, dolls) It's like the new Avril Lavigne single (which Sarra Manning was recently unfairly slated for criticising. In it, Lavigne basically tells a boy to get rid of his girlfriend and go out with her instead. In the video, she is seen bullying the boy's poor girlfriend and it's just...horrible. A recent post on the LiveJournal community Blackcigarette discussed this, and the general state of girls in pop today and someone made a fantastic point about missing the Spice Girls.
No, seriously! Yeah, ok, they were a bit rubbish. But all their songs were about putting your friends first, loving other girls and never, ever letting men get in the way. Isn't this a better message than 'Hey, I'm hotter than your stupid girlfriend"? Bring back the Spice Girls, that's what I say. 90's pop just had so much of a more positive message.
Obviously, I am against the revival of Buffalo trainers and tiny Union Jack dresses.

I love being a girl. I'm not a rampant femminist. I just think that the sexes are equal (hell, everyone's equal) and can't everyone be judged on their own individual merits rather than their age/sex/race/whatever? It'd be nice to think of a time when you didn't have to 'come out' as gay and girls didn't feel they had to take their clothes off just to feel good about themselves but there you go. I am an eternal dreamer.