Why? Because I can.

So last Friday the 27th, I dressed up and had a photo shoot before work. Then I put on something a bit more bold than I usually wear to work. I posted all the pictures on my Twitter and Facebook. To say that my co-workers were stunned is an understatement. They'd never seen me all glammed up before. They all asked, "Why? What's the occasion?"

There is none, quite simply. Friday was day 5 of "Operation Lady Gojira" and I planned this all week. Each day I've accomplished a goal or goals that put me further on my way back to being the kind of woman I want to be and further away from being the woman I was these past few months. Today, my goal was to boost my ego and prove to myself that I am a drop dead fucking gorgeous sexy bombshell. It was also to show the world that there's another side to me. 

I am a woman that can fit in watching a performance of "The Nutcracker" decked out in my best and I am a woman that can go to a wrestling show, wearing a shirt supporting one of my numerous favourites, and yell, wince and applaud until my voice gives out and my hands are numb. 

I read feminist books, Dostoevsky, Stephen King and Charlaine Harris. I watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Rachel Maddow Show and Storage Wars. I stargaze and imagine other worlds out there, and I follow the news and think about the world I live in. I am a student of history and I follow politics because I firmly believe that the individual can change things. 

I am a woman, a feminist, a bitch. I am strong and fragile. I can be wild and I can be passive. Dominant and submissive. I speak my mind because I am not afraid to do so. My ancestors won the right for me to vote as well as several other things and I will defend those hard earned rights. They are mine and no politician has the right to take them away from me.


Above all, I want to be accepted and loved for who and what I am. "Warts and all," as that traitor Oliver Cromwell once said. Because if you can't handle me at my worst, then you damn sure don't deserve me at my best. This is the part of me that no one will ever take away from me, as Katy Perry put it.


What I do, I do for me. Why? Because I can.

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun." - Katharine Hepburn

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield.