So Sophie, are you super confident, self sufficient, independent and self-assured, or do you desperately need verbal validation of being able to put your own shoes on? I thought the inner confidence, that people mistake for arrogance, was innate and something she was born with. So why then as a 31 year old women is she still having a cry over her mum not being effusive enough in her praise? She acknowledges her mum's love came in acts of service, she understand she was loved, yet here she is, still being super impacted by not being told she was loved enough.... I wonder when the penny is going to drop that her neediness, her insatiable desire for attention, and her constant big-noting of herself is actually the result of being so devastatingly un-confident that's is crippled her growth as a human. I have legit never seen someone with less calmness about the person they are, with less peace about their personality, and for whom their privileged childhood apparently still devastates to this day.
I'm also incredibly baffled by someone who is always banging on about breaking gender norms and stereotypes puts so much of her feelings on her mother. If she knows her mum is shy, quiet, not overly verbal, why not accept that and look for that positive reinforcement from her dad? Why is it the female parent that is required to provide that? Seems like she is VERY much reinforcing gender stereotypes with her expectations.
And Soph, you absolute bleeping pick me loser, did you happen to catch this year's Women's Cricket World Cup? A tournament contested by women from all over the globe who are your age who love, grew up playing, and dedicated their entire lives to the sport? Playing a bit of backyard cricket as a child is not special or unique, it's an absolute lie that 'no other girls were doing that'. Heaps were. With their brothers, their dads, their cousins, and... wait for it... with their mums and sisters even. Because women like sport. Girls like sport. All the girls you pursue relentlessly are athletes, who... wait for it... PLAYED SPORT AS KIDS.
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