If I Were A Boy

A strange title, I know, but this is the story of why I have it...

I’ve discovered an epidemic that’s pretty much infiltrated every school, church and many other groups, establishments, or just people in general. It’s called the word ‘special.’ How do you spell special? B-O-Y.

It’s an interesting phenomenon really, when you think about it. You go to school and may see two girls in a fight. These girls are called ‘ghetto’ or ‘skanks,’ depending on the circumstances of the fight. Two boys in the same situation in a fight are considered cool. Boys will be boys right? In church, you’ve got the stereotypical bandwagon that’s propelled in full force right now, but honestly hasn’t changed so much from the past few decades. What could it be, you may wonder? Men leading everything. Oh there’s a few women here and there but I doubt it came easily. From the old (as dirt) school people who believe women should speak when spoken to...to the morphed-into modern day men that curiously have the same clothes, haircuts, guitars and voices. It really changed but so much. Sure, we have a few girls speckled into the mix of boys, but now all the other girls are being groomed to imitate them.

Since when has being a girl been bad? I don’t understand this. I’m not saying we need to be given special treatment or a free ride. I just want to know why people have lost the ability to look at things with fairness and wisdom.

As a wacky example I’ll suggest we may all see two people wearing blue coats. One a man, one a woman. Both coats are the same color and fit their owners just right. So is the coat any more blue simply because the man wears it? Is it any less of a coat simply because the woman wears it? We may see two people dating many different people at some point in our lives. One is a man, one a woman. Both do the same things exactly. So why is the woman considered promiscuous while the man is considered to be ‘playing the field?’ It’s our own tilted perception that’s weirding things out.

I’m not writing anything to be male-bashing or because I want to shout that girls are going to conquer the world. I’m just voicing some frustration over how ridiculous all of us can be at times. We’re not all the same, obviously, God has made us unique and placed special gifts and desires in each of us for a purpose. Our commonalities are that we are human, that Jesus died for us all, and that we need Him. We’ve all been given the priceless gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, if we accept it. So why do we waste so much time warring against each other for things that are so meaningless?

Let’s not be stuck in the mind-sets of those people that have permanent round trip tickets on the bandwagon of people-pleasers. Let’s be fair and not afraid to be different. It’s a learning process of how to see things with God’s perspective and not our own.