You learn something new every day. This is what I learned.
“MPDGs are usually static characters who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish. They invariably serve as the romantic interest for a (often brooding or depressed) male protagonist”
I am raging. This ideal has been projected on to me, I have been squeezed like a berry for this and when I don’t yield enough juice…
I’m 25. I’m short. I get called girly but I consider it more feminine. I only own 1 pair of trousers because (a) I think trousers make me look like I have small sausages for legs and (b) I only ever saw my Nanny in trousers once and I think she’d like the fact that I consider myself a lady and don’t wear trousers either. I like crafts because I fucking like crafts. Since I was a child, not because Mollie Makes caught my eye in WHSmith (no offence, Mollie Makes, good magazine) or because it’s cool or not cool. I don’t mind if it is or it isn’t, I’ll keep creating small, largely useless objects because I enjoy it. I don’t actually have to justify these things to you or anyone. I can get my face painted at my 4 year old cousin’s birthday party and still be smart enough to run financial events, strong enough to take care of myself in London (of all weakening places) and too good for your bullshit anymore.
I jumped on the bed because I thought it was funny and you make me feel awkward and wretched about myself, so I thought to laugh might make another strained time spent with you better. You told me to stop jumping on the bed, that I wasn’t Zooey Deschanel. My “role model”. “It’s OK, everybody needs a role model”. You, amongst others, try to put me in this box, this MPDG box. I refuse.
To quote the magnificent Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.”
Right now, I wish I could conjure up my 18 year old self, hardened from 6 years of Irish secondary school English because then I could write much more eloquently on the subject. I don’t think honesty is always going to go hand in hand with eloquence and I’ll just have to live with that.
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Source:
http://minsmachins.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/manic-pixie-dream-girl/