Before updating my iPhone to OS4 yesterday, I had to delete unused footage from my iMovie archive because there wasn’t enough space on my computer to facilitate an upload. This has spurned a need in me to delete as much of the old crap on my computer as I can find. And that means starting with the expansive folder entitled “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here”. Yes. There is actually a folder on my computer called that. So I thought it would be fun to post some of the crap I have from… well… ever ago. Also, I now have a plugin that tweets when I post, so I want to test that out.
This is an article I wrote for our bathroom newspaper in 8th grade called “Stereotyped Maniacs”, which got a lot of response from my teachers. Ooooh my.
The first words of the constitution are “we the peopleâ€. As a revised modern draft would say, if ever compiled, “We the sexist, superficial, stereotyped maniacs whom are unwillingly pulled from our lounge chairs to vote and become part of the once envied freedom of the union of the United States of Americaâ€. Yes, it is true. Americans have become smug, comfortable, in their comfy little office jobs and their false assurances from the government that everyone is equal. Ha. Let me type that again. ‘Assurances from the government that everyone is equal’. Whatever idiot came up with that view of modern society hasn’t spent much time outside of his studio apartment in New York.
From my views, the only way this civilization will ever become equal is if, by some unexplainable miracle, people come to accept others, no matter how rich, poor, smart, or stupid they are, and that all the stereotypes are combined into one, standing group. Americans. Can we do it? Not in my lifetime.
Also, though it is said that women have been granted equal rights, due to the 19th amendment, are we really? No. In theory, yes, but in practice? Give me a break. If we were granted equal rights and opportunities, then the girls basketball team would have new jerseys of their own, not the leftovers from the boy’s season. Now, that has to be the greatest understatement of the inequality of women’s rights in the history of forever, but it is a legit and credible argument covering the issue described. But women’s rights aren’t the only things that are created for the mere reason of making us feel better.
I am sure that everyone has heard of the stereotypes described in schools and in everyday adult life, such as ‘nerds’, ‘jocks’, ‘skaters’, and ‘preps’. How many times has a person gone home upset or in tears because of their apparent social standing? I know I have, for one, come home at night utterly depressed about my inability to converse naturally with all people. My social stigma is nerd. As pathetic as that sounds, it is what me and about 10% of my peers have been tormented about since the day they set foot in grade school. To what purpose does this serve? It makes others less ‘nerdy’ seem superior. How unfair is that, America?
I’m not asking those who are pointed to in this article to give up all their social life for the sake of those less gifted in social events. I’m merely stating the obvious that is in all of our hearts, some of which are almost too deep to find, and I demand only one thing; respect. Respect me and my fellow ‘nerds’. Respect me and my fellow women. But most of all, respect yourselves, and so that at the end of the day, if someone were to ask you if you are proud of how you live your life, and how you treat and think of others, you will be able to answer them with a truthful… yes.
Proposed article for the Weekly Wipe
