Needing to Vent

I don't have a pic to go with this blog because to tell you the truth I just couldn't do it. I just need to vent for a moment. We had D'Kota's football awards ceremony tonight, I brought Amy's fruit salad. No one was brave enough to eat any of it so I will be eating it for lunch for days to come. I know, I can hear the sounds of mourning from you all. But onto my venting. Some of you may know that I have always considered myself a strong girl. Not generally someone you would want to make angry. Someone who could be there to help people out physically. To be blunt, not a wimp. I was not treated like a wimp as a child and so far no one has treated me that way as an adult. I started noticing a nasty trend a few years ago among coaches that made me want to shove something ...... Well I will not finish that sentence. Tonight a football coach was telling a story of one of the football players and how he was always getting hurt and that he had to be hugged a lot. So this FABULOUS example of manhood let us all in on his extremely funny joke and told us how he told him not to be a girl and that he was going to bring this football player a skirt to wear at practice. Now the mean girl in me wanted to take his lip and pull it up over his head and then make me bleed once a month. I also wanted to ask him if his mother was here and if he thought she was not a strong person. If he thought she would not be able to handle anything he asked of any of his football players. Did he not realize what she had done to get him here? Is that something any of his football players could do? What about him? Or was he too wimpy to do what she had done? Maybe she should bring a football helmet as a funny joke for him to wear!!!!! Does this man not realize that every time he yells, "Stop being a GIRL!" He is insulting his own daughters, wife and even his own mother? I guess he does not think that giving him life was such a big thing, and then her NOT taking it back because he thinks it is a bad thing to be a girl!!! Now some of you may want to know if I said anything to this amazing example of a respectful man, my answer is no. The coaching staff here and other places, has taught me that any man that thinks it is an insult to call someone a girl is not worthy of my tongue lashing and will only be on the receiving end of the Golden Rule. I will ignore them in hopes that they ignore me. But I will continue to point out to my boys that if it was not for a wimpy woman, they would not be alive (still ;} ). D'Kota can tell you that just because his mom hits like a girl does not mean that it doesn't hurt. Poor boy was a little surprised. Now don't think of me as a mean girl, I don't want to be a mean girl. I just don't want to be thought of as an insult either.