Where women should be

This article is focused on women with children, but a lot of the statistics are about women in general, whether it be life expectancy or women in government positions, Go women!

Fashion

I kinda love fashion (as in wearable fashion). I would love to have a never ending closet of clothes, or one that just changes every two weeks, but that's not me, I actually only own enough clothes for a little over a week before I HAVE to do laundry or I literally will not have a clean shirt to wear to work (or clean underwear for that matter, but no one notices that, right?)

This website is super awesome, but also a little bit too hipster for me.

As winter approaches it makes me realize that I don't have enough fall/winter clothes and only really have summer clothes still (I've only been in Chicago for two years, give me a break!)

However, listening to everyone around me, I actually think fashion (in a wearable sense) is less of a girly thing that it is originally thought to be. Guys are always saying that fall is their favorite season "because the clothes is so much better, I get to wear jackets and sweaters". I guess... but I also guess it's true what they say, guys don't really  notice what girls are wearing (or not wearing!) season to season, so maybe I'll just wear sweatpants to work (ew) or start dressing in costumes as my friend and I recently discussed, today would be so much more exciting if I were in costume.

Compliments

Yesterday I had one of those days where people complimented me a lot. It made me wonder if women get more compliments than men, or if perhaps more men hand out compliments than women.

I know it's not a totally feminist entry, but I do remember a female coworker telling me I have a gorgeous smile the other day. That compliment (ie: one that I didn't feel would be followed with an "are you single?") meant more to me than some of the compliments I get from other random people around town. I think, to continue the good feelings, I am going to try to compliment people more, and maybe focus on not ONLY complimenting women, because they must get more frequent compliments. Maybe women are just easier to approach than men?

Femininity

I was talking to my boyfriend the other day and made a comment about how I'm not the most feminine worman in the world; his response was "but aren't you a feminist!?" I realize he was joking, but it did get me thinking about how feminism isn't associated with feminine attributes. Maybe our definition of what is feminine is wrong, we don't need makeup and pretty clothes to be feminine we just have to be comfortable in ourselves as women. All women are feminine, we are born as women. I guess I should have said I'm not the most "girly" or the most "concerned with my looks" or something. The truth is I *am* concerned with my looks, but not if it will require me to NOT do something I want to do, or will require me to wake up an extra half an hour early just to put makeup on.

I think it's time to take back the word feminine, I am feminine, I'm just not the most ..... I don't like the word girly here either.

Girls

I was going to write about how I watched the Sex and the City episode that Miranda is assumed to be a lesbian and gets an "in" with her boss at her firm because of it. Of course, the actual episode is about how single women are the enemies of attached women or that they need to be "figured out". Of course, sometimes that's the case, it just makes people uncomfortable to see something so different from what they see as normal.

But I'm not actually going to write about that (yet) I definitely want to eventually though because it is an interesting idea, that single women are enemies of attached women, or that they are inherently different.

Instead I'm going to write about this article I found in Good Magazine about the program Girls Who Code which helped lower income girls in the New York area learn some coding before college to get them prepared for the tech world. I love this idea because I think I would have loved to do computer science, I just didn't really know it was out there and hadn't learned any code before college, so I didn't want to be the stupid one in classes. So I just want to say go Girls Who Code! You're doing awesome things, not only for lower income people, but for women. The more women in computer science, the more women who will be able to make the computer technology and society less scary for more women to use!