Girl special

“I heard this lady say. ‘I love kids.’ That’s nice. Little weird though. It’s like saying, ‘I like people….for a little while.‘ ‘How old are you? 14? Fck off.’”
-Demetri Martin

For the moment:
I Remember – Keyshia Cole

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I was on the phone recently on one of those extended conversations, and I felt like saying rhetorically, ‘you’re a girl, your special’. And I regret not sharing that thought.

While I am saying that partly because of how personally unique she was, but it also extends to her being a girl. This is of course, my perspective. That of a boy.

Many, girls and boys included, I think overlook this amazing truth. Passing the test of time, there are things that girls can do that boys never can. I’m talking from the beginning of time, till the last of the human race.

There’s no maternity leave for men, but there’s a long standing fundamental law of war to protect women and children.

Women CAN always choose to go to war. Men CAN never choose to get pregnant. It’s a shame that more often than not, neither side appreciate golden realities. Guilty of materialism are we?