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| Don't get distracted by my niece's cuteness factor, back in the day she would've been lethal with that bow. |
For the longest time, I’ve associated being a female with
wearing bows. On dresses, in the hair, on panties, and bras. Bows, bows
everywhere. Whether you were a tom boy, a girly girl, or something in between,
you’ve once, or still do, have bows in your wardrobe.
I hate bows. Never liked them as a child and I don’t enjoy
them as an adult. It used to be that if I bought a piece of clothing with a bow
attached, I’d cut it off. It’s only recently that I’ve stopped the practice.
Why?
After pondering why bows are associated with females, one
light bulb moment came to mind. It’s a weapon. Yes, that’s what my brilliant
brain came up with. Being the physically weaker sex, for the most part, we need
an advantage of some sort.
Imagine as a child wearing a pretty ribbon in your hair tied
up in a nice little bow, then someone comes on the attack, perhaps a boy
pulling your pigtails because he has an annoying inexpressible crush. In the
next moment he’s on his stomach with his hands tied behind his back with your
pretty little ribbon.
I bet in the past, ribbon self-defense and take downs were taught
to our young females. A practice passed on from generation to generation until
for some reason it stopped and the bows became too small to utilize as a
weapon. Darn these modern day bows.
Isn’t that what you came up with when you thought of why
females wear bows?
