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For her senior project, Dallas Delaney starts Girls Shit Too, a series of vlogs inspiring girls to ditch the constraints of femininity and adopt the perks of masculinity. That's when another girl in her English class, Adree, uses her own online plat...

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What Little Girls Are Made Into (Adree Style)

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Adree Richards @AdreeSchmadree_dancer

Greetings lovely people! Let me tell you why we should appropriate @DallasDelaney 's poetry remix challenge! #WhatLittleGirlsRMadeInto

What Little Girls Are Made Into (Adree-Style)

Published on January 27, 2015

Youtube Video Transcript:

I always loved the poem about how little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. It's just a poem...it's not like little kids are taught to take it literally. Kids aren't stupid...they know cows can't jump over moons and people aren't made of cake ingredients and animal parts. I do see Dallas's point with her recreated poem, but I think she's going too far with this.

It's become pretty clear that she operates from a perspective that totally embraces the theory that gender is socially constructed, that we perform as men or women because of constructed expectations.

As a feminist, I like this theory—but I don't buy into it 100%. I do believe there are a lot of ideas that are constructed by society, like the idea that girls like pink and boys shouldn't. But I also think men and women probably do have some inherent differences, and that should embrace those differences. I think our brains and bodies do work differently. I mean, doesn't it seem obvious that girls are more in tune with their emotions? And obviously boys have the capacity to be much stronger. We are different.

Dallas doesn't think so. She is one of those feminists who wants women to stop performing like women and to start performing like men. She wants more women in currently male-dominated workplaces, but she wants those women to act like men. She wants women to be dominant leaders who are aggressive in their interactions, and she wants them to enter our positions with knowledge that matches men's knowledge—you know, "STEM" knowledge.

But, women with femininity have some stellar stuff to bring to the table. We don't want to dominate—we want to listen and to engage in communication that isn't led by one alpha male, but shared by everyone. We want to encourage cooperation. We don't want to be aggressive—we want to be sympathetic, respectful, and compromising. And some of us, like me, aren't ever going to be good at math and science, so stop putting us down, Dallas. Accept us for what we are and value us for what we can contribute to the world.

After all, you know what they say: women weren't created to do everything a man can do. We were created to do what men can't do. And that's pretty cool.

So here's my recreation of the sugar and spice poem:

Good listeners and cooperators, nurturing problem-solvers, and artsy thinkers—that's what little girls are made into.

If any of you have more optimistic views on women, you should also infiltrate Dallas Delaney's recreated poem challenge, using her hashtag #WhatLittleGirlsRMadeInto. Show her that what girls are made into isn't so bad! Show her the world needs to be balanced with our femininity!

I'll retweet the poems I like the most.

After watching Adree's video, I sent out a raging tweetstorm.