Samantha Darling
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A poet & lover of language
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Why Female Friends Are Important
My earliest memories are being in a male dominated house. My mom worked a bunch so I was with my brothers and dad most of the time. We played wrestling, played make believe kings & knights, and I watched a lot that influenced me into the idea that wives are nagging and never want to have fun. I never wanted to be that person. I started to think that other girls are the enemy and to impress a guy, you need to be like a bro... but a bro that you kiss. I was too young to know what it meant but these influences gave me the idea that I need to be of "loose morals" in order to keep a balance of being a friend and romantic prospect to men. These sound like terrible things to teacher a young girl. Who in their right mind would allow their child to believe this or watch anything that would give her that idea? Well, most people. My brothers and father weren't trying to teach me this nor did they know it was what I thought. It's a lesson we get fed to us by nearly all sit-coms revolving around a patriarch and his family. The wife is a drag, the man is a horndog, and we don't see very much actual love in the marriage. The deepest connections are between a man and his friends while women's relationships are almost always toxic. They fight over the men, they talk behind each other's backs and the teenage girls in the show are told that if you're a prude you won't find love and the "pretty" girls will wind up unhappy in their latter lives.
By Samantha Darling6 years ago in Viva