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.