Helena
Finally! Someone who shares my view on life!
I'm stuck here in Denmark where hypocrisy runs free in the streets.
Everyone around me whines and expects me to listen to their problems, but when it comes to me, they just don't care.
And I've had it!
I've had it with always having to confirm other people's expectations of me.
I've had it with always telling my friends they're okay/not a loser/beautiful/thin in those pants/my favourite. (get the picture?)
I'm sick of my classmates looking at me in that "special" way when I've said something obliging, good little girls aren't supposed to.
It's hard to develop into a self-assured, independent, intelligent woman when your surroundings constantly try to hold you down (all in good faith, off course) -- especially in a country such as Denmark when we have a set of unwritten rules (which everybody knows) that go under the name Janteloven (means Jante's law). This law basically says that you should not believe you are anything and never that you are in any way better than those around you, which just makes my task so much harder.
I'm sick of the idea that if someone does well, they must be lucky, that every independent woman is a threat to her surroundings (this is not only a believe shared by men - unfortunately some women believe this, too), and that it's okay to whine, but unacceptable to speak about how well you are doing or that you believe in yourself for this must surely be signs of egoism...right?
Yes! I want to read more from Real Life Heartless Bitches
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