"You did?"
"Yeah, he was just being such a jerk. And I couldn't hold my tongue."
"You have a problem with men. You have a chip on your shoulder. You even do it with me sometimes."
I didn't respond. A chip on my shoulder?
My whole life I've been the little blonde girl. I'm not very big. I'm not very tough looking. I've always looked younger than my age. And for as long as I can remember, I've been underestimated, undermined, coddled, and patted on the head. "You're very pretty, but what will separate you from all the other attractive blonde girls?" a professor in theater school once asked. At a bar one time I got, "You're very pretty. Do you have anything else going for you?"
If I have a problem with men it's because I have something to prove. I can't sit back and wait for someone to discover that I'm smart or funny or that I can throw a perfectly spiraled football. Someday I'll be completely comfortable with who I am and I'll let people uncover that on their own. But today is not that day.
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I meant to comment on this earlier. I completely relate to this post, and just wanted to say - yes.
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