I recently read several very alarming articles on CNN and in The New Yorker (courtesy of Mr. Romanic) about global warming that I urge everyone to read, particularly those of you who are still down-playing the seriousness of the global warming problem.
My only other tyrade for the week: the David and Goliath brand shirt I saw in the mall that said "I'm too pretty to do math." Yes, this is a perfect message to be sending our young girls, who are already bombarded with images of what they should be (dumb, pretty, over-sexed and thin) on television and in magazines. What's more, this isn't like some kid made it herself as an expression of who she is. This is a corporate machine feeding bullshit to our children - selling them an image, giving them a blueprint for who they need to be. You aren't a rebel or a non-conformist if you are just buying your identity from some corporation. The corporate man is telling you who you should be, and you should feel insulted. And, corporate man.... for shame. Filling impressionale teenage minds with garbage just so you can make a buck. I hope you have a teenage daughter one day, who turns out just as slutty and stupid as your t-shirts sound.
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My sister loves all of that shit and she is seriously depressed because she isn't as thin or as pretty as all the girls that she sees wearing it at school. I don't know how to tell her not to feel bad when all her life she has been told that she is supposed to be beautiful and stupid. The worst part is that my parents just keep buying all those stupid ass clothes and products for her because they think it will help.
i want a shirt that says i'm too ugly to be stupid
no you don't heather... you wan't a shirt that says "I'm too smart to worry about being pretty." or "I'm too smart to use my looks as a crutch." or "I'm too smart to bother ith your buillshit."
and I don't know what to tell you about your sister, Sam. Sometimes I think this whole self-acceptance battle is like a right of passage into womanhood that every one of us has to face ourselves.... ya know? Just try to be a positve example for her. That's really all you can do...
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