I am thankful that I can live in an age

where a woman can achieve so much

without it being thought of weird, against the grain or that

they somehow are inverted, aping their male counterparts,

not through their own actions but because the male brain

cannot cope without turning it into competition.

I am thankful, yet I have one eye on the past

where I remember feeling certainly sorry,

but more downright ashamed, that the girls were told they

couldn’t kick a ball and yet when we took them on at