I am a woman’s woman. A gal’s gal. A lady who enjoys lunching and brunching and munching and all other forms of consuming food and beverages (sometimes even the alcoholic variety) with her girl friends.  I don’t believe in talking poorly about other woman based on the principle that we as a sex and gender have enough stacked against us and should lift each other up in any way and chance we get.

I compliment women I think have pretty eyes or shiny hair. If I like their dress or their shoes I will often ask where they got them. I believe in lifting up other woman and in elevating a woman’s confidence by any means I see fit. I appreciate when I am made to feel beautiful and smart by others so it’s quite literally my pleasure to give that back.

You will rarely hear me cut down another female; even if that someone is a person who I am not a big fan of. I will often choose to just not say anything at all opting for silence rather than hate speech.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a BIG fan of men too. They are some of the people who make up my closest circle of best friends. But men and women have different roles and attributes. Men don’t tend to gossip about each other in the same way women do. Men love differently and they go after things with a different passion and zest. But I love them all the same.

Now I’ll tell you, I am not perfect and as much as I like to think that I unequivocally only build up women and avoid cutting them down, if a woman were to hurt a man I love, she had better watch her back. All bets are off where she is concerned and as much as I would love to take the high road and just “do and say nothing”…I wasn’t raised to be a wallflower either. I wasn’t raised to idly sit by and not defend the people I love when they have been hurt. No, I was raised to “love and accept ALL people”, and to do what is RIGHT, and not what is easy. Sometimes that means defending honor, and sometimes it means gently putting someone back into the place they belong. This can be done without confrontation. You can still be classy as the day is long, but get your point across that you won’t tolerate bad behavior.

So I am a Girl’s Girl. But I’m also a strong woman. And that is a powerful combination. I can gently and lovingly, yet strongly and emphatically convey that I protect what is mine and that I care and defend with the ferocity of a lioness. You want me in your corner. It is a VERY, very GOOD THING.