How many of you have been in a romantic relationship in high school? Raise your hands. By romantic I don’t necessarily mean there were copious amounts of true romance involved. Maybe you just held hands a couple times. Maybe you were too embarrassed to look at each other…it still counts. Okay, hands down. How many of you are glad that you dated in high school? I see that some hands went down. Those of you who put your hands down may have had a bad experience. Perhaps your boyfriend or girlfriend was a jerk who didn’t care about you, or just a total nerd. I’m here to tell you that these relationships, as pointless and crappy as you may think they are now, have actually helped you in the big scheme of things. Dating in high school is a teaching experience, it is worthwhile, and it is fun. I suggest that after I finish my blog, each of you go roam the halls and classrooms of your school and find someone to take to the movies tonight.
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Stupidity = Pop Stardom
I shudder as I type the following words...
"She is the prom queen, I'm in the marching band..."
To the twits who wrote this song, I have a few words for you. First I will discuss the idea of the song. This song is about a girl with horrible self-esteem. She has a boyfriend, she's a a member of marching band - a great team/family/leadership building extracirricular, and she's a self-diagnosed girl next door. Wow, sounds like a pretty horrible life to me (Carly pouts sarcastically). For a few minutes we hear this girl whine about her sucky life and how she's jealous of this hot popular girl who is involved and people love her. The first time I heard this song, I expected it to come to some sort of resolution where the girl realizes her life is pretty good the way it is and subliminally plant in the minds of America's female youth that it's okay to be who you are. I was surprised when the airheads who sing this song kept whining about how much they suck over top of a very generic pop-rock background. What kind of message is this to give to young girls? I'm sure some 13 year old is sitting in her room right now, gazing longingly at her Jessie McCartney poster wishing she were like the popular girls at her school. How can two young women write a song like this when there are pre-teen and teen girls living in this age who might just be pushed over the edges of their cliffs of depression when they hear this song?!?!
Secondly, this song just adds to the negative connotation the two words "marching band" get stuck with when talked about in regular society...you know...the people who have never in marching band. At RVHS, each new freshman class of bandos gets smaller and smaller thanks to bimbos like these songwriters who have probably never been in band in their lives. If they had been, they would know that it is an opportunity to develop strong friendships, musical skill, and leadership.
Stupidity = Pop Stardom
I shudder as I type the following words...
"She is the prom queen, I'm in the marching band..."
To the twits who wrote this song, I have a few words for you. First I will discuss the idea of the song. This song is about a girl with horrible self-esteem. She has a boyfriend, she's a a member of marching band - a great team/family/leadership building extracirricular, and she's a self-diagnosed girl next door. Wow, sounds like a pretty horrible life to me (Carly pouts sarcastically). For a few minutes we hear this girl whine about her sucky life and how she's jealous of this hot popular girl who is involved and people love her. The first time I heard this song, I expected it to come to some sort of resolution where the girl realizes her life is pretty good the way it is and subliminally plant in the minds of America's female youth that it's okay to be who you are. I was surprised when the airheads who sing this song kept whining about how much they suck over top of a very generic pop-rock background. What kind of message is this to give to young girls? I'm sure some 13 year old is sitting in her room right now, gazing longingly at her Jessie McCartney poster wishing she were like the popular girls at her school. How can two young women write a song like this when there are pre-teen and teen girls living in this age who might just be pushed over the edges of their cliffs of depression when they hear this song?!?!
Secondly, this song just adds to the negative connotation the two words "marching band" get stuck with when talked about in regular society...you know...the people who have never in marching band. At RVHS, each new freshman class of bandos gets smaller and smaller thanks to bimbos like these songwriters who have probably never been in band in their lives. If they had been, they would know that it is an opportunity to develop strong friendships, musical skill, and leadership.
The Wedding Cake Wars: Gay Marriage in America
When I was a little girl, I spent hours playing dress-up with little white dresses and shoes and tiaras. I imagined my own wedding ceremony someday, me with the same white dress, my future husband (in little boy form) in a black tuxedo – a picture perfect American wedding. Replace the girl in the dress with another guy in a tux and suddenly the perfect picture becomes an unholy abomination in the eyes of many people. Is it because the stereotype of American marriage is not being followed properly? As a little girl, I didn’t fantasize about being a housewife that stays home and obeys her husband’s every wish; not too long ago this would have made me an abomination. Society is something progressive, something that grows and changes. Gay marriage is now in the social change limelight, just as civil rights for African Americans, women’s suffrage, and the abolition of slavery were years before it. Gay marriage should be legalized in the
United States because gay people are no less human than straight people - marriage is a human right. Let us explore why two little guys on top of the wedding cake is such a controversy.
