"Like A Girl"

This morning, my friend sent me this video (link below), which was all about what it means to do things in life "like a girl". The clip was entertaining, insightful, inspiring and sad. I select the word 'sad' objectively. It was sad because of how the phrase "like a girl" is viewed as a negative within our society. Even after global female liberation, in todays modern equal opportunity world, being "like a girl" is still considered an insult.

I'm not going to give the video away; it's really something you should watch for yourselves - female or male- but I will say this...To all the girls out there trying to figure out who you are, what you want from life or where you want to progress in the future, I tell you this, no matter how you go about doing those things - whether it be in a dainty female-like manner or with bold female strength, if anybody, and I mean anybody, tells you that you do it "like a girl"...You look that person straight in the eyes and you say to them,"Actually, I do it like me! But I just so happen to be a girl, you neanderthal." (Okay, the neanderthal part is optional, but it's there if you want it.)

This is not feminism. It's humanism. 

Let's all try to live up to our 'most intelligent species' title and progress forward from #likeagirl being an insult.