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?!
Nice first post.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you seem to neglect to weigh up your argument by stating the bad things about being male!
Such as having to shave your face daily (unless you want to look shipwrecked!), having to always make the first move when out looking for a relationship and having to buy women drinks all night ;)