One Step Forward for Womankind

By Tonia

Have you noticed when women get together for more than five minutes they exchange some kind of personal information and start to laugh? That’s because we get it – we understand each other’s experiences. We share and laugh together because we feel validated by each other.

Women have distinctive experiences being female. We have complex body functions, special wardrobe needs, huge family responsibilities, and mind-boggling multi-tasking skills that, while amazing, are also comical. To bring humor and connection to you and your girlfriends, try this game at your next get-together.

Line up four-six participants behind a line at one end of the room or yard. Explain that you will be reading off a number of female experiences and, for each one that they own up to, they can take one step forward. (By the way, ALL of these ideas came from my girlfriends', my daughters’ and my own real experiences. Frightening, I know.)  The woman who has stepped forward the farthest at the end, wins! 

• If you have ever gotten chewing gum stuck in your pubic hair, take one step forward.
• If you have ever sustained an injury while putting on panty hose, take one step forward.
• If you have ever carried hand-cuffs in your purse, take one step forward.
• If you have ever complimented another woman on her shoes from inside a bathroom stall, take one step forward.
• If you have ever farted during sex, take one step forward.
• If you have ever lost a wrap-around skirt in public, take one step forward.
• If you have ever danced on a pole in public, take one step forward.
• If you have ever danced on top of a bar in public, take one step forward.
• If you have ever shot your diaphragm across the bathroom while trying to put it in, take one step forward.
• If you have ever faked multiple orgasms during a single sex act, take one step forward. Aw, heck, take two steps forward.
• If you have ever been skinny dipping with a group, take one step forward.
• If you have ever dated three or more people at the same time, take one step forward. If you have ever dated three or more people in the same night, take two steps forward.
• If you have ever forgotten your child's name, take one step forward.
• If you have ever been arrested for protesting/supporting a feminist cause, take two steps forward.
• If you have ever bought food, put it in your own serving dish and claimed it was homemade, take one step forward.
• If you have ever had sex on an airplane, take one step forward.
• If you have ever flashed a policeman, take one step forward.
• If you have ever really photocopied your butt, take one step forward.
• If you have ever eaten baby food simply because you liked how it tasted, take one step forward.
• If you have ever really told a partner that s/he is lousy in bed (because s/he WAS!), take one step forward.
• If you have ever driven a car, pumped breast milk and talked on the phone at the same time, take two steps back.

Feel free to comment below on how many of these experiences are in your past. I'll confess to nine.....but I'm not telling which ones!