When it comes to tattoos, I'm not opposed, just incredibly indecisive. I feel the same way about identity.. 

.. Experience cannot simply be thought of as a source of knowledge: experience is not self-evident and an explanation of how things are but is itself a construction, 'Experience is at once already an interpretation and in need of an interpretation.'

- Joanne Hollows, Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (2000)

Electric Smiles.

I figure I need to slow down the 'femininity, feminism' talk and bring in something more grassroots. 

Because pixie cuts are gorgeous 

"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history." 

- Vivienne Westwood 

Growing up, our mothers warn us of the dangers of femininity.  I recall spending much of my childhood in tree houses, dropping out of ballet, and baking mud pies. Arguably, my mother provided safe territory for the development of my brooding self. No beer in high school and a strict warning to 'stay off the pole' in university helped to craft my sense of self and respectability. Leading to deep criticisms of my upbringing, the rules of femininity inspired by feminist thinkers brought me to recognize the role of childhood, adolescent and adult narratives in constructing two hyper-feminine female characters - The innocent and the temptress. 

"I'm not being a bitch, I'm being myself"- Carrie Bradshaw 

a note

I wonder What is female identity -  can it be formed free from the clutches of the traditional 

feminine or must it be forever linked in opposition to that which is defined for us?

Must women be distinguished by cultural definers of femininity or is it possible to

present an organic female identity?