Ask Women on Yik Yak | I'm a girl that wasn't raised with a proper mother figure, and I feel like I don't understand womanhood/girlhood at all. What would you tell/do with your daughter to show what that is?

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Ask Women 16w

I'm a girl that wasn't raised with a proper mother figure, and I feel like I don't understand womanhood/girlhood at all. What would you tell/do with your daughter to show what that is?

Anonymous 15w

i think girlhood & womanhood mean different things to different ppl, plus not everyone has the same experiences. for example, i couldn’t wear makeup (including nail polish) outside of the house until high school & i didn’t have my first sleepover until high school, both of which seem to be very common “girlhood” things. i think if i have a daughter, i’d be a tiny bit more lenient on “girly” things like that so she doesn’t feel left out compared to other girls, but i also wouldn’t force it on her

Anonymous 15w

I had a somewhat related experience and I made a separate YouTube account and podcast feed where I only followed women for all my interests with lots of different life positions and experiences and just tried to listen to a lot of different women’s perspectives and it’s really helped me feel more connected to other women in a way I hadn’t before. It’s not something that can be summed up easily, it’s something varied and multifaceted that you kind of just have to absorb the diversity of to get

Anonymous

#1 15w

imo it comes down to shared experiences between girls & between women, whether it’s things like slumber parties & dress shopping or heavier things like how men change the way they perceive us as we get older. that’s probably how i’d explain it

Anonymous

#2 15w

I also tried learning more feminine associated hobbies and consuming at least a little of different girl-targeted media from when I was growing up so I could just understand those things and whether they are things I liked better Also skincare and hygiene stuff, my mom didn’t have a mom and I had to teach her a lot of that because she never learned