This morning as I was trying to enjoy my coffee, my husband started giving me a hard time about my kitchen organizational skills and more specifically he dared to question my baking supply cabinet.   I warned him not to go there and very specifically described what I would do to him if he did.  It was all in good fun, no need to start watching Dateline to find out the whole story.   I even mentioned throwing my coffee cup at him but realized the cup along with its contents were just too precious to me.  He made a joking remark about how I “throw like a girl”.  You know what throw like a girl means in my world?  That I can hit you in the friggin head with my shoe while I’m stirring my red sauce without even blinking.

I grew up with a mother that also knew how to “throw like a girl”.  We used to throw tennis balls over our two family house for fun and I believe as a child in Boston, she may have actually made it over a building.  I used to challenge boys to throwing competitions quite a bit, need I say who won?  If that is throwing like a girl then it is true, not too many boys can do that.  Doing anything like a girl means you are crazy strong.  I don’t even need to bring up the whole giving birth thing.  Even Obama referred to the US Women’s Soccer team as badass.  Damn straight we are.

Unfortunately, “you throw like a girl” is a saying that has been around for years and carries a negative connotation with it.  Usually implied as an insult to a boy, if a boy can’t throw well he is said to “throw like a girl”.  The funny thing is only girls seem to know that’s a compliment.  Another perfect example of how we are the more intelligent sex.  I would think that when someone can’t throw well they should be said to “throw like a boy”.  Sorry, that isn’t politically correct and I apologize for offending the male population.  So ladies, just keep grinning every time you hear that saying, we know what it really means.