Gone girly?

I can't help but giggle at all the stuff girls do now a-days. When I was younger I'd have never dreamed of all the stuff they let girls do in this modern world we live in.

I have many memories from my childhood of some old men and even a few old women complaining about how women had no right to do such awful things as work a full time job or wear long pants to church. I can remember my mom getting kind of worried when she wore pants to church one time when I was a kid. I didn't know why it was a big deal. I just figured pants were more comfortable than a dress and that seemed like it should have been ok. I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Today they've got girl football players, girl NFL referees and girl roping at the NFR. They even got girl mma fighting.

I took my son to school the other day and a little bitty girl came walking by in full camo and she had a pair of high dollar water proof hunting boots on.

I bet her camo clothes and hunting boots cost five hundred. I wouldn't let my son wear his camo to school. I'm afraid he'd lose it or it would come home smelling like stinky kids and cafeteria food. That would run off any self respecting bucks around our stands for sure. I can't help but be a tightwad, that camo has got plumb ridiculous the last few years.

The girls are taking over what used to be just for men stuff. It used to be just the men that roped. It dang sure used to be men that played, coached or umped football games. I never thought I would see women fighting and getting bloodied up the way these mma girls do now.

When I was a kid I was taught about Rosie the Riveter and how important of a role women played in winning World War II. They worked in factories building bombs, planes and so forth. I was taught that was a major turning point in the fight for equality among men and women.

The girls helped win the war and there wasn't no two ways about it.

Today, it seems a lot of what used to be normally a man's world has became girly. From hunting clothes to pickup trucks some of the manliest things there are have now gone girly.

I must admit, I've got to where I like the breakaway roping better than some of the other timed events in rodeo. It's easy to see the skill the women ropers have compared to the men that team rope or tie down rope. Those girls get the calves roped faster than most of the men. I can't help but tease the men ropers anytime we are at a rodeo where they have breakaway roping.

My wife killed an elk on a draw hunt this past winter. She sat through freezing sleet and snow for fifteen hours the first day of the hunt. Most of the men on the hunt quit long before her. The second day she killed her elk before noon. The weather cleared up and she could see through her scope and the range finder worked so she could get the bullet drop right. They let me and our son go in and help pack it out. She was in some dang sure rough country. It impressed the dickens out of me she hunted that hard. There were some other women hunting as well. I was impressed how tough the girl hunters were.

I been thinking on the financial side of all of this girl power. If you make camouflage or sell hunting calls it looks to me like a good deal. All they have to do is slap a little pink on the clothes or calls and Shazam you've doubled the amount of prospective buyers for your products. That seems like smart business to me. This breakaway roping is good for the rodeos too. It's humane and it is easy to find those size of calves for them to rope. If I was a stock contractor it looks like easy money to me.

I guess the only thing left for me to do is figure out how to market my calves to the girls. I ain't never heard of a pink calf being born, but maybe I need to do a little more research. If they can have pink ducks and rabbits at Easter, surely I can hatch a pink calf. There's bound to be a way to get in and make some extra money on all this girly stuff. I guess I've gone girly too.