I wrote last Sunday about how I wasn’t too hyped up about the Super Bowl – but that I was looking forward to the commercials.

Like most people, I tend to gloss over commercials, often channel surfing in order to avoid having to watch them. Hey, I’ll even admit to using the mute button. But Super Bowl commercials are different. They’re better. And this year, one really stood out to me.

It was a commercial by Always – yep, THAT Always – labeled #Likeagirl, and part of a campaign by Proctor & Gamble (which owns the Always brand) to “rewrite the rules and show the world that doing it #Likeagirl is an awesome thing.” I was mesmerized, and by the end of the commercial, I wanted to jump up and yell, “Girl power! Yeah!”

In case you were under a rock and missed it, the commercial showed some men, women and young boys, who were asked to run like a girl, fight like a girl, throw like a girl. Each one made the attempt in a silly, weak manner, implying that doing anything like a girl is an insult.

Then they asked some young girls to do the same things. Each and every one came out strong, doing their best and showing that little girls can do anything. It was awesome, and it just proves that negative behavior like that is learned. And if it’s learned, it can be changed.

The hashtag #Likeagirl soon began trending all over Twitter, and lots of women who are doing great things used it to stand up for women everywhere.

But Haterade, thy cup runneth over.

It wasn’t long before men began to use the hashtag – and one of their own, #Likeaboy – to complain that the commercial was unfair because it only focused on women.

When was the last time someone insulted you for doing something “like a boy?” Just saying…

When I was a kid, I often heard the phrase “like a girl.” I was told I kicked the ball like a girl, threw the ball like a girl, ran like a girl…the list goes on. I was a tomboy, so I didn’t much like hearing that. I knew I was as good as any of the boys in the neighborhood. I was fierce. At least in my own mind. Even as a young child, I understood that doing things “like a girl” was not a good thing.

These days, hearing the phrase, “like a girl” is akin to saying something is just “so gay.” Both are terrible.

But things can change. People can change. And it starts with one person, one hashtag, one shift in attitude.

So I’m taking “like a girl” and making it my own. I’m proud to do anything like a girl, because women are fantastic, strong and beautiful creatures. And because it’s time we teach our daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters, etc. that there is no need for them to feel inferior for any reason. Don’t look like the model on the magazine? Who cares? You’re beautiful just the way you are. You aren’t athletic like the chick next to you at the gym? Don’t worry about it. There’s something your’e great at. Find it and go be great at it.

This week, I’m doing my best to do everything #Likeagirl – and it’s flippin’ awesome. Girl power! Yeah!

You may contact Angye Morrison at angye.morrison@gaflnews.com.