Feminine but confident, and I'm sick of people not comprehending that
I love typical girly things. Hair, makeup, fashion, baby pink, flowers, etc., and I'm a very sensitive, kind, loving individual. However, I also love doing hard work, coming up with new ideas and putting them into motion, pushing myself to go further than before, and just all around being a hard (and smart) worker. I often find myself going above and beyond just to achieve things outside of the norm for my age, and helping out everyone around me that I possibly can so that they can feel the same happiness that comes with achieving their goals. Nevertheless, I feel an imbalance and it's driving me crazy. I see all this crap online about how "biologically women are submissive" and all this bs. It just drives me further and further away from the girly things I do like, because the last thing I want is someone seeing me as inferior simply because I choose to present my more feminine traits a certain day.
Don't know if anyone else also feels this way but yeah. It's getting annoying. Why can't people just accept that I can like girly, feminine things, and not want to be a submissive doormat to a guy.
I'm not saying I don't want to be a lady either. I'm perfectly happy letting a gentleman open a door for me, push my chair in, take off my shoes, etc., and I will appreciate him and show my appreciation in many ways. However, my problem only comes when a guy (or heck, even a girl), expects me to be someone I'm not for them just because they have this painted idea in their head of how I'm "supposed to act". Sick of it.