Reply #47: Several people over a very short period of time [View All]

[Jamastiene]

told me they liked my writing. I write monstrous long emails to a friend of mine and sometimes on DU. I used to play the guitar to practice my creative expression. Lately, I've been enjoying writing not only music on the computer, but also stories, long emails, and opinion pieces, an awful lot lately. It seems like I have been feeling very inspired and creative lately.

Having my friend, my English teacher from last summer's English class, and then several people on DU say they liked reading my posts/emails/writing assignments made me feel good. I mean people have said they liked my guitar playing but there has been this cloud always hovering over that because of some of the comments made when I was younger. Whe I first played in front of people, a lot of them would say, "You are pretty good at playing guitar, for a girl.

It always made me wonder what difference it should make what sex the skin on my fingers is. Joan Jett said something about what difference it should make what the sex of the skin playing the guitar is one time too. She's my hero. I was happy to hear her say the same thing I was thinking. I guess the people who say "for a girl" have their reasons for feeling that way. I don't get it though.