There are two occasions in life when I find myself wanting to be male.
Don’t worry folks, neither are serious enough for me to consider a change of gender, overall I quite enjoy being a girl, but there are just two teeny things.
The first relates to football, at football matches I would like to be able to chant. Now I know some girls will chant at football matches and I completely respect them for this, but I don’t tend to, mainly because I know my weedy voice will add nothing to the general chant and also because my little brother laughs at me. I really don’t know who he thinks he is, I’ve been going to Bournemouth matches with my Pops since I was five, and he supported Man U until about three years ago! But still, a deep voice would be nice in this context. And I wouldn’t want to be a girl with a deep voice so the natural solution to this is to be a boy of course. I actually tend to mouth chants and clap along; it’s pathetic really, but also, I like to think, endearing.
The second reason, and I think about this one more often, concerns lyrics. For those of you who do not know, (I say like people are even reading this, HA) I’m doing a degree in English Literature, so in general I just love words. And I love music. These two passions combine nicely in the form of lyrics. But I don’t listen to many female artists, the two main exceptions are probably Blondie and Ellie Goulding. I listen to more males, whose songs tend to refer to women.
I shall elaborate, at this exact moment in time on my itunes shuffle, a song called She Had The World by Panic! At The Disco is playing, it’s not a favourite of mine, I think it’s an album track which I tend to skip (guilty) but nonetheless it’s an entire song about a girl, this is swiftly followed by Songbird, by Oasis, another song about a girl, followed by Sleep, a Dandy Warhols song that I recommend because it’s b-e-a-utiful...and yes it’s about a girl: ‘well I could sleep forever but it's of her I dream.’
There are better examples than this, but my mind has gone blank because there’s pressure upon it to think of them. Anyway, my main point is, I think men have a minefield of lyrics at their disposal to use to their romantic advantage, and if I was a guy I would relish this. Thus this is why I sometimes think it would be nice to be a man. However, I must stress, I do not guarantee a 100% success rate with the lyric method, some girls may not be as hopelessly romantic as me.
In other news not relating to my personal gender issues, I sent my Mum a recipe today which I used to make Malteser slices last week, a recipe which included my own personal annotations and recommendations. I felt like a real adult. Or a pompous cook. Whichever you prefer.
P.S. Isn’t it a funny coincidence that I decide to start writing a blog 2 weeks before my first year exams start?!
