Personal Narrative: Growing Up A Female

Growing up a Female Growing up the first big difference I remember making between males and females was the way they got to act. I was always a tomboy wanting to play with the boys, dress in basketball shorts, and play sports at recess. But it was not always seen as ok, I remember girls laughing at me for what I wore and boys telling me I couldn’t do things with them because I was a girl. This definitely affected me as a child growing up, feeling like I had to be one kind of thing and fit into this box of what a female is supposed to be. As I got older the differences between genders only increased and so did my desire to want to fight those differences.
I love sports and have tried almost every sport out there growing up, but the one I really wanted to was football. I never got to though, because I never felt like I could or had the opportunity to. In elementary school boys played football at recess and only boys, I never saw a girl play …show more content…
I came to feminism because I hated shaving my legs” (Pg. 84, Listen Up). This quote fits in so well with my topic because growing up a female I was faced with having to shave my legs and arm pits, and I chose not to. It did not start out as a feminist statement but living in society where it was not socially acceptable made it one. I wasn’t hurt when people judged me for my body hair anymore, because I loved my body hair and realized being female doesn’t mean I have to change for society, society was what needed to change. Females and males should not be a label, because human beings are so much more than that. They are more than their appearance and they are not so different from one another. Females can be strong, men can be emotional, women can have other hair on their body and men can shave the hair on their bodies if they want. This social construction that has made humans view people a specific way needs to