As we grow up, our family unit is our safe space. That safe space grows into the closet that so many girls feel trapped inside. When inside your closet it can easily feel as if you are the only girly person in the whole world and that nobody will ever accept your girliness.
There are far more special girls in the world than you know. More and more people are accepting of girliness than before. Some of those people may already be in your existing circle of friends and family. While for other girls, that support is a little further away.
Pink Femme is here to help bring out the best of YOU and show that you are not alone.
This post was created by the talented Candie Hart and originally appeared on her Tumblr blog. It is reproduced here with her kind permission. Be sure to check out more about Candie at the end of the post and give her some Pink Femme love.
It might not seem like it, especially if you’re anything like me and surrounded by friends, employees, community leaders, church-folk, etc., but there are extremely wonderful people in this world who are ready for you to be YOU. And that’s not to say that the people who surround you are bad people. I like looking for the best in people and I choose to believe that most people are usually better than we give them credit.
Yet, our circles of people are like fences on the toddler playground. They keep us “safe” and contained. The trouble is for us girly boys is that we want to play on the big girl swings. We’d like to expand our options beyond the Little Tyke slide. So, it might be that your circle will never accept your femininity. It might be that you need a new circle or an extension to your circle. And of course, it could be that your circle is not as restrictive as you think. Maybe someone else wants to join you outside the rubber mulch playground.
I have to believe that there are incredible people near me, somewhere close, somewhere out there with whom I can connect in all my girliness; that it’s not just me skipping down this road in a little skater skirt and keds; that there’s someone who claps for me in my pink yoga pants and adores my feminine gate as I work on my more feminine tones. That someone could be male or female. That someone could identify with traditional gender roles and life, or like me, understand that traditions deserve some better color and fragrance.
I hope you feel this way. I hope that you truly believe that there are indeed people, opportunities, and groups, who are ready for you to stop hiding, stop fretting, stop wallowing in guilt, and start being YOU. I completely understand if you have a hard time thinking that this could be true. But they’re out there, and the number is growing.
I can tell you this, “I believe in YOU and I’m ready for you to be a true girly YOU.”
CandieHart
Candie is an enthusiast for all things fit and femme. All of her very creative captions carry the same positive, motivating ethos that I envisioned for Pink Femme when I started this site. Use this link to go to Candie’s blog on Tumblr and give her captions some much-needed love.
If you would like to see more of Candie’s longer-form content with captions here on Pink Femme – here is the link to the list of posts that have been published.
If you are new to Pink Femme, be sure to check out the unique 40 Steps To Femme program that will help you to feel more girly one delicate step at a time.