A Confident Women

The topic of self confidence, self respected and being an empowered women, is something that is becoming more and more of a continually discussed topic amongst women today. This past year and a half for me has been an interesting time in my life. Not only have I completed a university degree, but I graduated with a sense of uncertainty and confusion, wondering where the strong confident empowered women I had been taught to be growing up had disappeared to. It's true, even as a happily married 25 year old lady, I still have times of doubt. Primarily because of the fact that I don't handle the unknown well it's been a great time in life to really refocus on what truly should and does matters to me.

Throughout my teenage years I learn to deal with criticism and bullying from others through a strength of personal confidence and laughter. Or so I thought. Today not only do we try to blend into current social norm, but we try to establish a consistency of it, even if it isn't who we really are. We push ourselves against our confidence in who we are because society has told us to act a certain way, especially as women. Even I am guilty of this. 

Striving to create "identity" for ourselves we search for someone to give us the answers.  As teenagers we look to, movies, music, television shows, especially celebrity influence through social media. It's not till we get older we start to realise that our friends and family will be the best support we could ever ask for. As a young women, pre-teen to young adult we look to the role models set out for us primarily in and amoungst the acting and modelling industry. Come on don't lie, I am sure that many of you stop in the magazine aisle and look at the covers and inside content for inspiration. We start to compare each other to other women, we look to the current and up coming trends of, fashion, body image and personal character, to prepare our selves for the changes social norms are continually establishing. Being different is a personal uniqueness, don't ever try to change it, embrace it. 

In a recent interview, actresses Melissa McCathy and Miranda Hart both talk about their excitement to see powerful confident women show cased in the newly released movie Spy. Bringing women empowerment to the forefront of social normality today is something they both feel strongly about and is a big encouragement. Watching both of these women show case this in their own unique way, this movie is great to watch on the big screen.  Seeing how both women embrace going against the social norm when a critic expresses that you cant be a women unless you are in a heel, is just mind blowing.  If you are yet to see this film, go see it now. Listening to both women being interviewed, really made me question why women today have to dress up, wear make up, gain weight then loose weight and show that they are confident to fit in. Though this will help any women feel self confident some times it's not always the case. 

I hope that as women we can learn to support each other through the rough times of life. I'm excited to witness the day women will look to friends and family as role models and not always count on famous female influence to make them happy. It is great that we can view women empowerment through famous women such as Amanda Tapping (Stargate, Sanctuary, Olympus), Mayim Bialik (Blossom, Big Bang Theory), Code de Pablo(NCIS, Dovekeepers) and many more as role models, as they are great women to look up to.

There are so many women in our society amongst our current social groups who need to start sharing their own high level of self confidence and respect, so that the next generation of young women see them as the realistic role models to look up to. If anyone can do it, it's us.  

-Mrs