Being A Girl Is Hard Work - Listed Friday

Today I had a lovely time looking for a new media stand for my living room, returning my shopping splurge at Target, and taking Penny to the vet.  When I got home I went to the restroom and look at my pretty face.  I then noticed I had a lovely dot smack dab between my eyes.  Turns out I poked myself with my mascara wand in the morning and did not notice.  I then proceeded to walk around town with a rather offensive mascara bindi on my forehead.  In case you did not just google it, a bindi is the red dot an Indian woman may wear on her forehead.

After this awesome makeup snafu I realized that being a girl is super hard work.  A guy would never have to worry about going to Target with a mascara mark on his face.  They just get to not wear make up and have people say they are handsome.  Easiest life ever.

I then came up with a list of all the ways that being a girl is just plain hard for Listed Friday.

[caption id="attachment_1506" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Please note the mascara between my eyes.[/caption]

 

- Children. As a girl you are automatically forced to share a public restroom with all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they all pee in the women's room and it is a pain.  Children crawling under your stall, crying that they don't want to share a stall with their mommy, spilling water and soap all over the counter and not cleaning it up, and the smell of baby poo in every. public. restroom.  I did not choose to have children I should not have to deal with all the children of the world and their bowel movements, even if Jesus does love them.

- Childbearing. While we are speaking of children what is with women being the only gender to have them.  Moms out there you can yell at me, but I am not a fan of getting fat and stretched out and then pushing something out of me.  Maybe if I was a mom or pregnant I would sing a different tune, for today right now, It just blows that the gender I am is the one that has to endure this trauma.

- Fat. The fact that our bodies just hold fat a little bit better than men's bodies.  Come on man!  Again it is because of the whole having a child thing.  Children really are selfish.

- Equal Pay Acts. The fact that the Senate had to even have a vote for an Equal Pay Bill so women can make the same amount of money as a man for equal work.  It boggles my mind that as a nation we have to try to make things fair in the work place still.  Women make $0.77 for every dollar a man makes for the same job.  Why?  I just can not figure out how this happens in our world today.  And if you do not think this is really happening I promise it is.  Email me and I am more than happy to tell you some personal experiences.

- Slower metabolisms.  Men can eat more and get away with it.  I am friends with a married couple that wanted to lose weight.  They both joined Weight Watchers together.  The woman could eat 1200 calories a day and the man could eat 2000.  He would pig out on pizza and still lost more weight than she did.  Being a girl is hard.

- Blogging.  It is a proven statistic that 97% of bloggers are women.  Blogging takes a lot of time from your life and requires much creativity and business savvy.  It is probably why the land of the blogs seems to be testosterone free.

- Make up.  Just the fact that we wear it and men do not.  The fact that men are still deemed handsome or hot without make up and women without make up are haggard or tired.  It is a sad sad world.

- Feminine products, all of them.  It is just a lot of stuff we have to buy on a regular basis

- Undergarments.  So if we are good people and don't free boob it on a regular basis we have to buy twice the amount of undergarments as the men folk.  I also think we pay a lot more for our undergarments too. Stupid boobs, if you aren't too big or too small you are just too expensive.

- All the tests. Mammograms, paps, ultrasounds, test of all relationships, etc.

- Waxing.  Why can't women be valued for being hairy?  I am just saying it is a ton of money and pain just to wax what needs to be waxed.

On the other side it is wonderful to know that I will never have to worry about what a prostate really is or have a doctor check it.  I also don't have to pay on a date so I guess I will take what I can get.

In order to participate in Listed Friday you will need to:

- Follow Erica Jacquline  on Bloglovin (It is only polite)
- Write a post about anything you want that includes a list of sorts
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- Come by Erica Jacquline on Fridays and add your link
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- Shower, rinse, repeat each week

What are somethings that make being a girl hard, but are totally worth it because being a girl ain't so bad.