Way to Play the Stereotype

[madrobins]

A magazine for the Southern Woman. Or New Southern Woman.

To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

I suppose, being a Northern girl, I make no effort at all. Can I just say I really hate the effort to break the world into ever more targeted marketing groups?