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3% a lady [Jun. 16th, 2009|11:00 am]
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It's official. I am shit at being a girl. This is not a new thing - more of a nagging realisation that I finally just have to put my hand up and admit to.
so... why am I shit at being a girl? pretty much everything!

  • I don't get up early and shower/wash my hair/put my makeup on before work

  • I rarely wear makeup at all unless I'm going out somewhere

  • I don't bathe every day

  • I have no idea where the iron is

  • I can't make/alter my own clothes

  • I use soap. I don't even pretend to buy fancy shower gels and the like

  • I only wear heels about once a month and complain the whole time

  • I don't take my makeup off before I go to bed

  • in fact I don't have any kind of skincare regime

  • I have some moisturiser but tend to forget to use it - and then it's just bog standard inexpensive stuff

  • I can't spend more than 3 minutes in lush or the bodyshop before I start to feel ill

  • body lotion - what's that all about - are women supposed to coat themselves with it after every bath/shower? surely that involves hanging round in a cold bathroom covered in sticky goo for aaaages? erk!

  • I don't do anything to my cuticles other than nibble at them

  • how do real women have clean nails all the time? within 5 mintues of getting out of the bath I have stuff under my nails!

  • of course painting them hides this but within a day or two they're all chipped and it's not like I have the time to take it all off again and repaint them

  • I wear black because I'm mortally afraid of colours, especially of them clashing! mortally! the prospect is more scary than mickey rourke's face...

  • sometimes my eyebrows scare me - they require a team of sherpers to maintain - it's probably why I don't have time to do all the other stuff - if I let them off the hook for a couple of days they start to go feral

  • I shave my legs as and when I feel its necessary depending on the weather, if they'll be on display or the possibility of them being rubbed over someone's face - my mate Cat shaves hers *every* day - that's a lot of face rubbing

  • my roots - bloody roots! I'm sure real women keep their roots well covered - hey I know several women who are ginger that you would never even guess about as their root-management is so good

  • I don't actually have a hair do - not even one I can pull out of the hat for posh occasions!

  • not that I actually have any hats

  • I don't have matching bra and pants sets. not even one!

  • I do not own a single piece of thong underwear

  • or any swim-wear and if I did it certainly wouldn't be a bikini - can you still get those big victorian coverall things?

  • I can't wear false eyelashes - they just poing off or stick to my nose

  • I do not pumice my feet

  • I don't know what to do with children other than pull faces at them or patronise them

  • I can imagine few things more mortifyingly horrible than doing an aerobics class

  • multiple orgasms?

  • I don't know how to slow dance

  • or waltz

  • I fight with boys

  • I like computer games

  • I like porn


I imagine some of you can add to this list for me :P

yeah sure I have a few girly bits like too many wigs, the urge to see hot man-love and a fondness for kittens but hey...

I may do a poll later
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[User Picture]From: [info]defiance23
2009-06-16 10:19 am (UTC)

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None of these things have any reflection on your femininity though....gender is a wierd thing to define once you remove all the things that are influenced societally rather than by the individual.

In other news....KITTENS!!!!!
[User Picture]From: [info]daevid
2009-06-16 10:24 am (UTC)

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*lol* none of which makes you a lesser woman :)

Actually it makes you rather different and a refreshing change from the "norm"

Mmm now your post has started to make me think of what manly qualities I have *looks long and hard*
[User Picture]From: [info]maviscruet
2009-06-16 10:27 am (UTC)

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It makes you my kind of woman.....
[User Picture]From: [info]tinksdarkerside
2009-06-16 10:42 am (UTC)

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I'm with you too on most of those. (I do somewhat obsessively feel I have to pumice my feet, I have a "thing" about making sure I don't have nasty hard skin on my feet - I swear by that Aussie heel cream stuff)

The iron thing, as long as you OWN one, that's ok. I have one (somewhere), but I've not used it in about 6 years. Life is too short for ironing.

I look forward to your poll, I may come out rated as a hobo! :)
[User Picture]From: [info]purpledonna
2009-06-16 10:43 am (UTC)

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Hehe! I am the the total opposite of your list.. apart from the children bit.. im with you 100% there! :)
[User Picture]From: [info]bitbat
2009-06-16 10:48 am (UTC)

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bring on the poll :)

shaving's for boys, isn't it?
I've never shaved anything in my life !
[User Picture]From: [info]ulfilias
2009-06-16 10:51 am (UTC)

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Yeah....But what a 3% it is !!!

[User Picture]From: [info]glennkenobi
2009-06-16 10:51 am (UTC)

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You fit the criteria of "real women" in that case.
[User Picture]From: [info]blondelass
2009-06-16 11:09 am (UTC)

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I actually agreed with the majority of that list. There were a few exceptions, but only a few.

And in response to Glenn, we can all go round saying "I'm a real woman" without having to sleep with a pea under the mattress or something.




[User Picture]From: [info]cyberspice
2009-06-16 11:15 am (UTC)

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You sound perfect to me. And as [info]blondelass says. We can be women without peeing on a mattress (or however it goes).
[User Picture]From: [info]blondelass
2009-06-16 11:59 am (UTC)

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It was the story of the Princess & the Pea and all she could say was "I'm a real princess" or something.
[User Picture]From: [info]kynon
2009-06-16 12:05 pm (UTC)

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I thought it was because she could pee through twelve mattresses.
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-16 12:58 pm (UTC)

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wow that's a lot of special brew
[User Picture]From: [info]gothadh
2009-06-16 11:21 am (UTC)

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Well I'm the same as you in most of those things! I think most of your female friends will be the same - it's just those horrible womens magazines that try and brainwash us!
[User Picture]From: [info]lostlorelei
2009-06-16 11:48 am (UTC)

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Poor Micky and his shonky face *sobs*
[User Picture]From: [info]melancholyrose_
2009-06-16 12:00 pm (UTC)

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Oh dear looking at all that it makes me a bit of a girly girl then :-(
[User Picture]From: [info]bikerfaerie
2009-06-16 12:43 pm (UTC)

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I'm with you on most of that, but I think I can make up for the few points where I am more girly with the fact that I've spent far longer covered in oil/grease/muck whilst rolling around on the floor fixing bikes.

I also like hitting thing with hammers :D
[User Picture]From: [info]buca
2009-06-16 01:36 pm (UTC)

HEH!

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lol.

you should write for the Guardian... would make a change from the tripe currently being peddled
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-16 02:01 pm (UTC)

Re: HEH!

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aw! that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

:P
[User Picture]From: [info]miss_behave
2009-06-16 01:43 pm (UTC)

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Shaving is for ladies! I prefer to rip out all my body hair with wax like a real man!

Er...
[User Picture]From: [info]ebb
2009-06-16 01:54 pm (UTC)

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If it's any help, some of that list applies to me too... but I do do quite a lot of it.

Mostly, it's habit. Once you shave every day, it becomes natural to do so. Once you wear make-up (and are strict about doing so) all the time, it feels odd when you don't. But you know? None of that means you aren't a girl, it must means you aren't a fussy girly girl - and most of those habits take up lots of time when you could be playing computer games etc x
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-16 02:00 pm (UTC)

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or watching beautiful man-love :D

:D
[User Picture]From: [info]fetishman
2009-06-16 03:34 pm (UTC)

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wrong wrong wrong. every single statements condemns you to womanhood:

# okay, so the first 70% is all to do with beauty-regime stuff, but if the french have traditionally neglected it i think it's permissible.

# I don't know what to do with children other than pull faces at them or patronise them - they love that crap.

# I can imagine few things more mortifyingly horrible than doing an aerobics class - this is not gender specific, unless this test is about whether you're a housewife from the 80's or not.

# multiple orgasms? - it still counts of you fall asleep for 3 hours and then just do it again.

# I don't know how to slow dance - you can goth? same thing but with less space.

# or waltz - same answer, but this time the reason you're out of time is because the music isn't in 4:4.

# I fight with boys - it's a traditional form of flirting.

# I like computer games - you're at the cutting edge of a demographic.

# I like porn - you're at the cutting edge of two demographics then.

QED
[User Picture]From: [info]organica
2009-06-16 04:12 pm (UTC)

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Based on all that I'd make a shit girl as well...
[User Picture]From: [info]amber_missy
2009-06-16 04:51 pm (UTC)

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I've always known that I was more mentally a bloke than a girl. I've not shaved my legs in more than a year (I've been given the OK by Stephen because he'd rather they were soft-fuzz or totally shaven, but the stubble that lasts from 5 minutes after they're clean shaven to about a week before they're soft and fuzzy again, is apparently unbearable! :)

As for multiple orgasms, seriously hunny, buy a bunny! Lock the house up, put some horny music on (I like the queen of the damned sound-track, just make sure it's on pretty loud - I never really made a peep before I bought a toy - I suprised myself!) and yes, giggle at yourself, but then just chill and play! Yey!

And - on a very different and totally unrelated note - yey for kitties! ___^..^___
[User Picture]From: [info]karliflower
2009-06-16 05:16 pm (UTC)

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With you on most of those things, As well as not taking makeup off I've even been known to go to bed without brushing my teeth if i'm very very drunk...
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-16 06:31 pm (UTC)

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yup guilty of that one too!
[User Picture]From: [info]plushy
2009-06-16 07:32 pm (UTC)

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I too, concur on a lot of those! Especially about body lotion, I mean... after every shower? Really? Do people actually have that kind of time?!
[User Picture]From: [info]prosperine
2009-06-16 09:51 pm (UTC)

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oil. its the way of the future. also the way of much more towels to be clean, but worth it.
[User Picture]From: [info]prosperine
2009-06-16 09:50 pm (UTC)

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pfft, according to your list I am more girlie than a girl.. but the lads at work would disagree!(well they would if I havnt drank them under the table with pernod and cider pints(that was actually one work outing.. we have the best ideas!)).

as to multiple?.... Id take one.. its been a while *wink* ......*grin*
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-16 09:57 pm (UTC)

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one for the team eh? :D
[User Picture]From: [info]kaitlinsm
2009-06-17 07:04 am (UTC)

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Well it's obvious to me that you should give up on being a girl and just get on with it and call yourself Steve.
[User Picture]From: [info]sarah_orange
2009-06-17 08:28 am (UTC)

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I kissed a girl that makes me a boy...

=)
[User Picture]From: [info]wyte_phantom
2009-06-17 09:18 am (UTC)

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I'm glad its not just me then!