Katrina Majkut

[Click here to watch the video.] While this Always ad is not about weddings, it’s important to think about how we treat and raise young girls – girls, who will ultimately grow up and get married. How they see their value as children will ultimately impact how they see their value, potential and contribution as grown women in relationships. I’m no psychologist, but it seems logical to assume that a person with healthy self esteem is more like to have healthy relationships.

As a young kid in the 80s and 90s, I often heard something similar but different sayings, “she throws like a boy.” I took that as a huge compliment never realizing that the comment meant I was exceeding the physical expectations of my sex. I went on to play two college varsity sports, but it was only until after college that I realized how much sweeter my athletic accomplishments would have been if they had been recognized as my own and not ones in relation to how a man performs. Even to this day in my recreation league as an adult, my male coach is often making such derogatory remarks. He even went as far as sending a message to my team asking us to send him “sexy” photos of us in our uniform so he could show them to bars who might want to sponsor us. He would never ask a guys team to do that. There are a ...