Feminism | Posted by Marissa B on 05/15/2010

Swearing

I guess I should tell you (being the reader) about me. I’m not going to say my name and school and age, because then I might as well just give you my social security number and blood type and invite you to steal my identity. So I’ll just talk about my likes and stuff like that. I like music (but I’m bad at finding new bands), I like reading (Harry Potter is my personal bible), I like eating, and I really enjoy swearing. For some reason it always seems to get a point across, and make me feel all around more badass, yet it always seems to get me in trouble.

For example, I’ll be in PE, and drop a 30-pound weight on my foot. Naturally, I scream, “Holy Mother fucking…

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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 01/29/2010

To Have a Boyfriend…

There are a lot of things that suck about high school. For one, getting up after about four hours of sleep because of some ridiculous paper I forgot was due and started at 11. Also, having to pick out an outfit that won’t make me look like I escaped from a mental institution. Another one is the “boyfriend” issue. I always get asked by parents (mine AND others) and other various clueless adults seeking insight into our world, if having a boyfriend is still all that important to girls. Without even getting into the “it’s not an assumption that all teenage girls are heterosexual…it’s a fact in my mind” issue of misguided adults, they also reason that girls have as many extra-curriculars as boys (as if boys used to be our…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Hannah S on 07/3/2009

Growing up too fast

It scares me that things have changed so vastly in the 2 years since I’ve been in middle school. It seems to me that there is a very different standard for popularity nowadays then there was when I was in 7th and 8th grade. I’ve come to the conclusion that middle-schoolers are trying to grow up way too fast.

loss of innocence…

I’ve heard stories that now there are 7th graders at my school who are making out and boys cheating on their girlfriends. IN 7TH GRADE. They’re 12 and 13. Its baffling to me. Maybe I’m just exceptionally unobservant but I’m almost positive that those kinds of things didn’t go on at my school at that age. It sucks even more because I’m sure that their parents try and tell them…

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Feminism | Posted by Jessie W on 03/1/2009

Mail Call

  

LC's "reality"

When I was younger, I used to love getting mail; it made me feel so important, more grown-up and mature. Lately, I’ve been receiving college advertisements and dreading them. It actually means I have to grow-up. It’s funny how it all works, wanting something when you’re younger and then completely changing your views when you’re older. Anyway, my parents gave me my mail and I assumed it was the same old colleges sending me more brochures, but it turns out I received my monthly copy of Seventeen magazine.

However, when I saw it, I was disappointed. The cover was Lauren Conrad and it was their hair issue. When I was a kid I thought it was the coolest thing to be a superstar. Don’t get me wrong, it’d be awesome…

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Feminism | Posted by Marie B on 02/27/2009

Nostalgia

Photo by Patrick Powers

Maybe it’s the excessive amount of nail polish fumes mixed with temporary tattoos making me nostalgic, but my head has been filled with a constant flow of childhood memories all night. The random pictures I keep finding around my room probably help too. Either way all bring back such good times, when life was simple and my biggest obstacle was naptime, something I crave now.

Bubbles were my guilty pleasure. To my 3, 4, 5 year old self there was nothing better than the feeling of opening a new pack of bubbles. For hours, the rainbow spheres would occupy me. Running through the lush grass of neighbors’ yards barefoot, I took it upon myself to pop each and every bubble. Or sitting Indian style in my dress, not…

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Feminism | Posted by Claire F on 02/27/2009

Hook Ups

Hook ups: the topic of eighty percent of all high school conversation; and a hundred percent of the scandal. But it seems in American (and any culturally western nation) that there is some magical number that is the perfect amount of guys a girl can hook up with; a number no one seems to be able to achieve. If a girl hooks up with too few guys, she’s a prude. If a girl hooks up with too many guys, she’s a slut. No matter what school you go to, there are few girls who are spared the labeling of their romantic lives.

And the best part of this branding is that it is an almost completely female dilemma. If a guy gets with multiple girls at the same party, he gets…

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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 02/27/2009

Facebook

Whenever I’m bored, I click on the new photos in my mini-feed on Facebook. A classic pose, first mastered by most as early as seventh grade, is fish face (head tilted, lips pursed, eyes wide). It’s a standard but I don’t really understand it. I guess that it’s to “accentuate the cheekbones.” Whatever.

I even find Model posing pretty amusing. I mean those poor girls probably spent a really long time finding the right angle on their back porch…in a bikini…trying to flip their hair just so it’s sexy enough but not covering their eyes. Although whenever I look at those pictures that obviously weren’t taken by that person on photo booth…I sort of just wonder about the person who took them. Awkward.

While previous generations had the hairbrush-lip-synching-bathroom-mirror experience, we have…

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