Good girls swallow.

I'm talking about feelings by the way... especially negative ones like hurt and anger. Apparently to be a 'good girl' you have got to keep things bottled up. It simply isn't womanly to burst out in an angry rage... in fact, when we so much as try to voice our feelings of contempt, we borderline on being an irritating, old nag.

A lot of times it's a lose-lose situation. We are taught to talk things through when a problem arises... We are taught not to talk about our dissatisfaction behind people's back... We are taught to confront people who had hurt us or angered us... We are taught all these things... but at the same time, a woman who does 'man-up' and does all these things carry so many labels with her.

If she was a man, she'd be 'in control'... when she's a woman, she's the 'Queen Control'...

If she was a man, she'd be 'professional'... when she's a woman, she's 'emotional'.

If she was a man, she is 'eloquent'... when she's a woman, she's 'talking nonsense'.

So what are we girls to do? We should confront but we're not allowed to be confrontational. We should exercise speaking our minds, but we have to filter our speech. We should defend our stand, but not so much as to sound defensive. What, pray tell, are we supposed to do?

I guess the only opinion we can have are those that agrees with the big guns. Nod your head, smile, say little... and keep your things in that bottle.

But there's only so much a bottle can contain...

and when it cracks... then you'll know what 'emotional' is.