today i shall talk about being taken seriously!

I'm a smart girl with a sensible head on her shoulders and I'm practical and realistic. I'm also a well dressed( although the self proclaimed fashionistas of my college might disagree..), above average looking girl who cracks jokes, takes being teased quite sportively and likes flirting a bit with boys...
i rarely talk about the books i read although i read a LOT and seldom share my political or religious views with anyone except a few and never correct the atrocious grammar of the people around me. does that make me stupid? does that make me a butterfly? i think not... however some of the people around me seem to disagree.... they consider me to be a butterfly. not driven enough, not intelligent enough not ambitious enough.....
i of course want to be taken seriously!! so after thinking long and hard this is the conclusion i have come to. if you belong to the female homosapien category you must do one or few or all of the following to be taken seriously:

1. dress like the back of a bus. i mean wear only gray, black and dull blue.
2. get into an occasional argument with the fool-of -a -boy you are hanging out with about science,politics or religion and of course give in to what he says in the end.
3. put down everyone around you
4. when the fool of a boy you constantly hang out with says something act as though it is the most profound thing you ever heard.
   
5. do not read Danielle Steel. burn all the high school romance crap that you so love to read.
6. claim that you never ever gossip. call anyone else who does "silly".
7. be as aggressive as you can possibly be. if you're nice then you are so obviously stupid.
8. read fat, bizarre books that no one has ever heard of.
9. don't ever be caught with a copy of filmfare or cosmo.
10. be as close minded as you can possibly be and reject all ideas and principles except your own as stupid.

OR
ditch the fool-of-a-boy, forget about what other people think of you, have loads of fun, look great and celebrate your uniqueness.. ............. as for being taken seriously... who cares as long as you take yourself seriously and do the things you want to do as well as you can.