But being a human (with this fast-shifting teenage-aged mood even), yes, I got my pet peeves, and several of them do related to what I call typical girls' behaviours.
Girls. I always relates most of them to cats. Most of them talk in this meow-y tone, screechy and squeal-y most of the time, but they can also be dead-flat or even mumbling when they got nothing to ask about. Their movements can be overly.. jumpy at times and menacing in other occasions, depending solely on their personal feelings and needs. That is saying something, obviously, even more coherently than whatever sugary stuffs they are saying physically. Of course, that's quite natural in humans. But at some points where patience capabilities are not optimal, well, I'd say those are quite some mood dumper indeed.
For a disclaimer, I'm not a full throttled cat-haters. As a matter of fact, they are cute in general. It's just that I prefer something else than that regarding stereotypical attitudes. :)
(Random plants in front of random house, taken on Linden Drive, Singapore)
Girls and their competitive nature. This picture above was taken to illustrate my assertion on this. In my opinion, most girls are like those bunches of flowers. They strives to be 'different', to be perceived as unique, special, 'cool outcast', 'tragic heroine', pretty, admirable, a Cinderella. For that purpose, they would go a long, long way to establish their images in front of the society. They would smile as wide as they can, pose as 'cute' as they can be, in front of cameras, regardless of how they bring themselves up in their everyday's lives. They would display beautiful and romantic quotes on their public spaces, their dream boys/figures/things/fairy tales, regardless of how often they bring those up in real conversations, regardless of what they say about themselves in front of others.
To link these up with my previous post, I would say that maybe, it is the society and modern cultures that shapes these kind of contrasting personalities out of some altered form of siege mentality. Nah, I don't have much against them in general, partly because I am also, in fact, a girl. Maybe at some points I had also conducted myself similar to those attitudes that I am cynical about.
As an end notes, if you're an Indonesian stumbled upon this post, maybe you would care to look up for the song whose title I adopted as this post title. It's an old song by Indra Lesmana, and its lyric is quite a thing I can relate to regarding this issue.
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