Look at the Pretties!!!!!

There is a certain standard for how girls should be, set by shows like Gossip Girl. The girls on the show are supposed to be pretty, feminine, and in dresses; they are expected to dance, have manners, and be socially proper. Not all girls are quite like that though. A perfect example is one of my favorite TV characters EVER! Kaliegh is from the show Firefly that previously aired on FOX for one series. She is comical, sweet, not quite innocent, a little bit of a tom boy, and kinda crude, but she is a lovable character. She does not fit the Gossip Girl standards of a female. She is a mechanic on the ship and one of only three girls on the whole ship. She talks machines, not seamstress's. There is a very painful scene where a very mean girl comes up to her and humiliates her on her fashion choices. She was very excited to wear a dress. The crew of the Firefly does not see her as a woman like their Companion, Anara. When Kaleigh first sees the dress with all the pretty ruffles, she is in love, the captain told her it would be pointless to walk around in a dress in the machine room. He said it would be "like a sheep standing on it's hind legs." Eventually, when he needs her to be a lady, he allows it, but when they go to the party, she just doesn't fit in quite right. She is awkwardly amazed by the buffet, the chandelier, the music, pretty people, and the dancing. Her best fit is in the engine room, but like every girl . . . .there is still a part of her that likes to wear pretty dresses and go to dances. All of us have a little Gossip Girl in us.