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Mood: Happy ]
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Currently: Eating Breakfast ]
So I am not going to be in my usual sartorial splendour today. And no, it’s not because I am lazy.
In case you haven’t heard about Geek Pride for Katie Day, it is in honour of a little girl in Illinois who love Star Wars. She loved it so much that she had a Star Wars water bottle. Until the boys started teasing her, saying Star Wars is only for boys. She stopped taking her waterbottle and looked for a more "girly" one instead.
When her mom figured out what was going on, she wrote a blog post about the whole incident, which went viral.
Thousands of female (and male) Star Wars fans sent notes telling Katie that girls could like Star Wars and to feel free to be herself. Yes, I was one of them. Further to that, geeks world-wide have agreed that today, December 10 would be Geek Pride for Katie Day. As a show of support for Katie and all others like her, we will wear our Star Wars T-Shirts. Katie’s school is even having a Proud To Be Me Day, encouraging kids to wear something that shows what they are interested in, not matter what it is. Because it is 2010 and people should not be bullied because they do not fit outdated gender norms.