Blog 39

So today is actually Halloween. It hadn’t really hit me that year quite as hard as it did today how much I miss my family and all my neighbors. Our entire street is really close and every year since my family lives on the corner everyone from up the hill comes down to our house and we have a giant table where all the candy buckets are and kids basically hit 10 houses in 1 min. But while the kids are coming around all of us hang out around fire pits and eat my mom’s amazing chili. My mom called me this morning as she was running around for stuff and as she talked about it all I got really homesick. I kinda figured I wouldn’t go home until Thanksgiving break and I didn’t think that I would feel this way anymore now that I am older but I really do miss home and my family a lot. I feel kind of left out when traditions like this are carried on without me being around like I was for the better part of my life. And the weirdest part is seeing all the young kids all grown up I bet I wouldn’t even recognize half the kids who walked through our house this year and not because they were wearing masks. It’s crazy how things can change so quickly. I can’t wait till Thanksgiving though it’ll be so nice to spend a couple days at home especially because I haven’t been in so long. My bed will be extra fantastic!

Blog 38

Halloween weekend was so much fun! I love Halloween and dressing up but today we watched scary movies and it’s not going so well. Me and one of my best friends watched Halloween the movies. They are all about the scary serial killer Michael Myers who basically killed his whole family and then escaped from the psych ward and is now going after this little girl. Considering we started watching at Halloween 3 we kind of missed the beginning but it really was kind of ridiculous cause they were the old ones and they weren’t really that scary. But now that its dark out I keep thinking about all the times in the movie where the people didn’t know he was right behind them and it’s kind of freaking me out. Good thing I have Nati here. I’m pretty sure if someone even tried to step on our porch she would start barking like a crazy dog. I hate that I am so intrigued by scary movies. They aren’t good for me to watch they actually mess up my sleep patterns for about a week every time to so I don’t know why I am drawn to them like a moth to a flame. But good for me we don’t have English on Tuesday so hopefully I get to catch up on some of those missed zzzz’s. Hope everyone didn’t eat too much candy or watch to many scary movies because I know I sure did and I now have a stomach ache and I’m paranoid in my own home!

Blog 37

As I walked up to mirror lake to listen to this performance I remember thinking what a wonderful idea it was that someone thought up to put a jazz concert in the outdoor auditorium. Such a pretty setting is so relaxing and listening to music while sitting in the grass under the trees and with the fountain in the background I have personally decided is the way to listen to a jazz concert. Granted the only other jazz concert I have ever listened to were the ones attended in a high school gym, theatre, or auditorium and my knowledge on the topic of jazz music isn’t the strongest I can say that it was very nice to sit outside and listen to the music it made me thankful that the thunderstorm planned for that evening didn’t happen. And I was very impressed that the time was taken to move all of the rather larger instruments outside just for our viewing pleasure. Aside from the setting itself the music was very good. Obviously if you have made it to the collegiate level in any instrument I would hope that you know how to play it. All the solos done by my fellow buckeyes blew me away especially the ones done on the saxophones. At one point it was going back and forth between two boys that were battling it out during one song and it literally gave me chills and made my arm hair stand on end at how talented those two musicians were. It made me want to learn how to play the alto sax though I never have been musically talented in any way.

Blog 36

Personal Antecdote:
This double standard between men and women hit me for the first time my first week of high school. My best friend, who is still my best friend to this day, called me crying. A boy whom we had gone to school with had decided to call her some choice words, makeout whore. Now that we are in college these things would probably role right off our backs but in your first year of high school at a brand new school with all new people these kinds of things can really sting. Not to mention the fact that this young man was a tad more then a make out whore according to rumors. I remember it making me so angry that he would be such a hypocrite and that he even thought he had the right to say anything. So what if my best friend had kissed someone she wasn’t running around school calling him names. The fact that he was cool because he could sleep around and that she had maybe kissed two boys her entire life and that made her a target of abuse to this day makes my blood boil
Hypothetical scenarios:
I think that if the roles were reversed the men would realize how hypocritical this truly is. Maybe if we all had some kind of a reality show such as Jersey Shore to follow us around the boys would see that they are degrading women and pretty much only getting with the ones that they love to call whores and sluts.

Blog 35

So for the commonplace article blog the article I chose was about domestic abuse. When I clicked on the gender tab I wasn’t really expecting that topic to be the forefront but then again I don’t really know what I expected. The article was focusing in on music promoting abuse towards women. It was something that most of us have heard and to be honest the writer didn’t have that many good points. In my opinion someone who is going to hit a woman was probably going to do it before he heard a random song and the music he likes is a representation of that. I don’t feel the music made him go out and do such a thing he just likes that kind of music because it represents things that he likes to do. However right or wrong they may be. She referenced some rap music, which as we all know is as bad as it comes when objectifying women but hey it has a catchy beat so what the heck we still listen to it, and even though I think that some rap music is offensive I know an awful lot of people who listen to that music and don’t go home and beat their significant other. Maybe I’m being too hard on this writer after all it isn’t a 7 page research paper with factual evidence and all that. Oh wait I should probably be writing that at the moment instead of my blog. Thank God for revisions!!!

Blog 34

For my common place paper I want to write about the double standard that society has about men women and sex. The fact that our society can call a man a pimp and a bachelor for having promiscuous sex and never settling down but a woman is called an old maid or a whore for doing the same. Obviously as a girl this is offensive towards me due to equal rights. Whatever I want to do I should be allowed to do regardless of whether I have a penis or not. I want to specifically relate this to modern television programs and the perfect example is the MTV hit Jersey Shore. Throughout this reality train wreck the men kiss and sleep with multiple women at least in the same week but more then not in the same day. When one of the girls does this they decide it is necessary to call her a whore and tell the boy that she has been seeing regularly what she has done. Does this not sound a tad hypocritical to you? There are many other such examples of this throughout television but Jersey Shore has about a billion different examples between two seasons. The problem with this is that this display of hypocrisy is being viewed by our nations youth and promoting these awful morale values on to the young men of our society today. This is something that needs to be addressed and stopped. Even though Jersey Shore may still be entertaining.

blog 33

So today I’m going to tell you all the story of how I came to have my dog Nati. First off I need to clarify that Nati is after the end of Cincinnati and not to be confused with Nati light the beer. She lives with me here at school and I don’t think that my college career would be the same if she hadn’t come into my life last year. I have a tendency to rescue animals, my friends call me Dr. Dolittle, birds, squirrels, rabbits, frogs, snakes, and cats have all been in and out of my life for years. I’m the type of person who instead of killing a bug will get it into a cup and let it outside. So anyways we were doing community service at the Franklin County Dog shelter (which if you have a chance to rescue a dog get them out of there it is an awful place!) and this young man came in saying he needed to drop off a dog that had been wandering around his neighborhood for weeks. He gave the description and then as he was about to go get the dog he asked what their policy was on Pitts. Well the lady told him the dog would have 48 hours and then would be euthanized. Now I didn’t want a dog, and so when he stopped and looked at me on the way out and asked me if I did my first response was no, then he informed me that it was just a puppy and I of course got suckered in. I have had her ever since.

Blog 32

So blogging again about anything, I guess I’ll write about my day. So today is Sunday which means we watched football all day as usual but the Browns won which is something that isn’t a usual occurrence but I was happy because my Dad is a really big Browns fan and he is always getting let down.  The Bengals lost and I’ve officially decided that Carson Palmer needs to go. And I am also confused as to why the man that got trampled on a punt return and no one has been updated on his condition. They finally figured out who he is but they left us all hanging on his condition. I’m sorry that I unlike the NFL announcers actually care about someone who got carted out on a stretchers condition. My bad, I should learn to forget about him like they apparently did. In other news we are now watching Sunday night football. It’s the Packers vs. the Vikings and Brett Farve is still annoying me because he is still playing football and he is way too old to be doing such things. I really hope that the Vikings lose so that this may finally be his last season. I wonder if the allegations against him relating to the sex scandal in New York. I hope not for his wife’s sake but maybe it will result in him quitting the league and that would be a gift from the NFL God’s cause this man needs to give up.

Blog 31

For my second CD review I decided instead of doing a whole album to compare the same song sung by two different artists like we did in class with “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley and also Big Mama Thorton’s version. The song I chose to do was “Hang on Sloopy” by the McCoys and “My Sloopy Girl by The Vibrations.  I picked this song to analyze because when it was mentioned in class it caught my attention and I wanted to hear the other version.

            The first thing that caught my attention is that normally I like the originals in class. The ‘black’ version has more soul and improvisation and I’m normally a fan of that style of singing. But in this case I liked the white version better and that surprised me. I almost felt as if The Vibrations voices didn’t fit the song as well. And maybe that is just due to the fact that I’m so used to hearing The McCoys version and that’s why I like it better. I couldn’t tell for sure but for some reason the improvisation in the song just didn’t work for me in The Vibrations version. The one thing that I did like better about their version was where they added in a “baby” or “ooweee” and they yelled it in a higher pitch.

            The other thing that I noticed about this cover was that the McCoys didn’t really change much about the song. When we listened to “Hound Dog” the two versions were drastically different and most of the lyrics that Big Mama Thorton had used weren’t present in Elvis’s song.  We learned that this was because of the sexual connotation wasn’t appropriate for the public at that time. I thought that both versions of “Hang on Sloopy” I listened to had very sexual lyrics and that surprised me because I expected the ‘white’ version to be toned down just as Hound Dog was. Some examples of the sexual innuendos put into the song are:

 Sloopy let your hair down, ooo
Let it hang down on me
Sloopy let your hair down, girl
Let it hang down on me, yeah

And:

Well it feels so good (come on, come on)
you know it feels so good (come on, come on)
well shake it, shake it, shake it sloopy (come on, come on)
shake it, shake it, shake it yeah (come on, come on)

I didn’t know how to take that the songs were very similar. It might have been a good thing that they didn’t change to much of what The Vibrations did but at the same time then they were stealing it straight from them instead of at least trying to make it their own like the other white artists did. I still am not sure how to feel about the topic but I have to say that I never knew there was such controversy behind a song that all of us Buckeyes hold so dear.

Blog 30

For my CD review I chose to listen to Kid Cudi’s album Man on the Moon: The End Of Day. Now for me personally this form of music is very foreign. And on top of that I am definitely not in any way musically inclined or talented at all. I personally have listened to country my whole life and have no idea what a harmony or melody is. I listen to music for how it makes me feel as opposed to trying to understand the technical aspects. The reason I chose this particular album is that it is one that my brother uploaded on to my computer and really wanted me to listen to and I never got a chance, this gave me the opportunity.

                The first thing I noticed is that it wasn’t all cussing and about having sex with women and the songs are slower and you can actually understand the lyrics. Some songs that connected with me personally were “Soundtrack 2 My Life”, “Up, Up, and Away”, and “Man on the Moon”. But my favorite out of the three was “Up, Up, and Away” in particular for the chorus.

I'll be up up and away
up up and away
cuz they gon' judge me anyway so whatever
I'll be up up and away
up up and away
cuz in the end they'll judge me anyway so whatever

I took this as he doesn’t care what people think. That he is going to be himself and it doesn’t matter what they think. I think that this is a fantastic message to be sending out into the public especially teens. High school is hard teenagers can be mean and petty and we all know it. I think that knowing who you are and being above the drama is definitely a good thing to promote. Most of his other lyrics follow in this pattern of promoting being an individual and thinking for yourself.

             Over all I really enjoyed the CD and would recommend it if anyone ever asked me to. It definitely expanded what my view of rap was and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I really liked it.

Our society and many others should take this argument into consideration. Taking pride in yourself and waiting to have sex with someone you actually care about is a luxury in the country we live in. Many others don’t get to experience this luxury due to arranged marriages and things of the sort. But we as a society have exploited sex and those who treasure it and want to save themselves for someone they love are more few and far between. Many of us have heard the stories of the children in elementary school getting caught having sex on the playground. How would you like to be that parent getting that phone call from the school? In my own personal experience when my younger brother was a freshman he told me that if you went to the freshman building and you were a guy that hadn’t lost your v-card yet it wasn’t possible to be cool. Sadly it seems as if our society is turning boys in to players, pimps, and man whores. But how can we turn it around and make them realize that it is the actions they take that define them for the rest of their lives? And is it really that important to try to grow up so fast?

This is the part of my paper I think I need to develop more. I think I might even change my thesis a little more to help the paper flow better. Let me know what you guys think!

Blog 28

For my blog today I’m going to discuss cute animals. The first one I want to start out with is teacup pigs. Have you ever seen a teacup pig? If you haven’t you are missing out go to google right now and search teacup pigs in images or youtube them they are adorable.You can have them as pets and it is just like a mini potbelly pig running around your house doing cute mini pig things. They can be housebroken and basically live in your house like a dog only they are a pig. The only downfall is that they are ridiculously expensive to buy and therefore not in my price range. It’s ok though cause my roomate said that if I brought one home we would have mini bacon in the morning which would some really expensive bacon and quite a downer. Plus on the flip side if my roomate didn’t kill the mini pig my dog probably would. I have a pitbull mix name Nati (after the city not the beer) and she probably wouldn’t like a little slice of bacon taking all of my attention away from her. But that doesn’t mean that some day in the future I won’t have a mini pig of my own. I’m thinking I want a spotted one or an all pink one therefore it just looks like a baby pig all the time. I wonder how my parents will feel about this development. I don’t think I should tell them until they can see how cute it is for themselves.

Blog 27

So I think that the grading for our paper in the dropbox is absolutely ridiculous. From what I heard in class she is giving people a two or even a zero. If you turned something in you should at least get a one. This grading is coming from the lady who stood up there on the first day of class and told us that we should write like we are writing to our best friends. I think this is ridiculous. Thank god for these stupid blogs or most people in the class would be failing or have a C average for English 110. Considering I have to retake this class because it didn’t transfer from my old school and I have already taken my second writing course and this class is proving to be more difficult to get a good grade in then that one was I think this is ridiculous. The fact that we have to write blogs on Saturdays and Sundays is just ridiculous. I have discussed this with many people and all can’t believe the fact that we have to blog and then are shocked even more to know that we have to every single day. Who knows maybe we’ll at least get out of class early today that would be a plus. Guess I’ll just go to the writing center four times to make up for the 4 points I lost on these drafts. Maybe they will help me write a paper sufficient to receive a four because heaven forbid anyone gets a five.

Blog 26

My parents visited Ohio State for the first time this weekend and we had so much fun! My brother wore his first Ohio State jersey and my whole family who have never rooted for them rooted for them and they lost. It was very depressing. Wisconsin kicked our butts and we had nothing to do about it. If my family hadn’t been here it would’ve been much more depressing. Mom bought me lots of stuff for our house and my room though and now it is all coming together. She also bought Nati, my dog, an Ohio State bed and she loves it! Now we are watching Monday night football and I’m not really watching it but my roommate wants Jacksonville to win. Durham, her dog, just growled at his own reflection in the window. He isn’t exactly the brightest crayon in the box. It scared us though because we watched the movie The Strangers last night and we are all a little weirded out and worrying that someone is gonna come and kill us, which is completely irrational because the movie was based in the woods and we live in an urban area. My roommate Randy takes sleeping sprays to make himself sleep and I was wondering if there is such a thing as an awake spray? So that he could wake himself up. He says that there is an awake spray and a stress spray which I find very interesting.  

Blog 25

My fellow Americans; Tonight, I am embarking on a mission with my roommates, one that involves the stimulation of the monoamines flowing through our youthful minds.  Tonight is family movie night.  We are watching The Strangers.  Aside from my introduction proceeds the following question.  When you choke a Smurf what color does it turn?  One might find this as a silly question full of fanookery and homosexuality, but I find it as a philosophical question.  I also feel bad for the Smurfs because they probably can’t breathe.  Today, I found out that when you look like I do it is difficult to get a table for one at a Chuckie Cheese.  Speaking of pizza, Smurfs, and children, I went to the circus last weekend.  At the circus they had Siamese elephants that were connected at the forehead.  They flipped the elephants upside down and had midgets riding tiny unicycles on the flat part of the elephant’s hoofs while juggling more midgets.  The midgets that were being juggled were also juggling bouncy balls. Mad respect and kudos it takes talent to be hurdling through the air being juggled by other midgets riding unicycles on Siamese elephants.  This made me burst out with guffaw and laughter.  At the same time, I was amazed.  I didn’t realize that such tiny people could have such an incredible amount of talent.  As my two hundred fifty word essay comes to a close my roommate Josh is a pussy, screaming at this stupid movie.

blog 24

So today is gameday. I love gameday. Today number one Ohio State travels into Madison, Wisconsin to play the Wisconsin Badgers. After we hopefully demolish all their hopes, dreams, and wishes we will celebrate all night long. Also my family is coming up for their first Ohio State gameday ever. They aren’t Ohio State fans and my Dad refuses to accept the fact that his daughter is a walnut with a birthmark (buckeye). Hopefully after today they will understand why I love Ohio State as much as I do and they will see why football is such a huge part of the college experience. Mom is very excited to see my dog Nati. Since leaving home to come back to school after the summer mom got really attached to my goofy dog and she talks to her on the phone whenever she calls me, she’s a little goofy. And last but not least my little brother, whom I hope to convert into a buckeye tonight is also coming up for his first real Ohio State experience. I hope that he has lots of fun tonight going out with all my friends and that he really loves it here so that my senior year can be his freshman year here. We are very close and I would love for him to come up to Columbus with me! Other then all that I hate these blogs because I don’t really know what to say about my day I guess I’ll just have to start watching more episodes because that actually gave me something rather interesting to write about. 

Blog 23

This week, I learned some awesome time-management skills. I set up a schedule Monday of all the goals that I wanted to accomplish and then kept a log of every half hour of my day. In the end I broke down my times and realized that I spent more time studying and doing athletic activities – separate – than I spent sleeping. It broke down to about fifty-one hours of studying, twenty-one hours of athletics, and sixteen hours of sleep. Thankfully I’ve been able to adjust my body to be able to handle this lack of sleep over the last five years or so because it allows me to vastly amplify and maximize my time management potential. I can now spend twice as much time studying as I could with sleep which helps open up even more time for social events and partying on the weekend. Dividing my time this effectively makes me a more well rounded person and allows me to join several different social groups and expand my social butterfly network.

I wish someone would open a restaurant called “I don’t care,” that way I could finally go to that place my girlfriend is talking about.  I heard this joke today and was laughing so hard I was crying. This is so true why exactly can’t girls make up their minds? I can’t and I am one I think we have something different in our brains that makes us not decisive.

Blog 22

In class today we discussed the steps to explaining our thesis the paragraph given to us was very in depth and complex. When explaining my argument I just used my intro to kind of link everything together. From bar mitzvahs, to getting your driver’s license, even a girl having her first period, our society is full of different rites of passage to growing up and becoming an adult. There are many different ways that we start to view girls as becoming women and boys growing into men. One that is a major mile stone in every person’s life is the day they lose their virginity. Sex is something that almost everyone has heard about and discussed for the better part of their adolescent lives; also in recent years it has been subliminally messaged to us through a number of television shows and commercials. Sex sells, but should it be considered the driving force in what deems a child an adult? Focusing in especially on a boy becoming a man, sometimes it seems as if our society is encouraging a generation of promiscuous boys. The show Firefly addressed this topic head on in the episode “Jaynestown”. I felt like this was a good intro to my paper and really introduced my thesis well. I don’t know if I was just confused in class because all of this stuff we learned in high school so I don’t know that it’s any different hopefully our conferences will help us all out a little.

Blog 20

“Thus, the very rules of restraint lead, in their view, to promiscuity. But this relies on looking at the system solely from the viewpoint of men, credited with a voracious sexual appetite, which again seems to have its roots as much in a Western model as in an African one”. After reading the entire article I would work this quote into my paper by using it to further enhance my argument showing that male promiscuity is common among many cultures and not just in ours. The quote would be precursored by the background from the article that told the reader that when women in the African culture are post pardom, in other words right after they have a child, the men practice polygamy. The fact that a woman is expected to stay at home and watch after the child, alone, while the man whom impregnated her is off sleeping with as many other women as he likes is just revolting. Not to mention the fact that in the quote itself it compares the male polygamy to what is common in Western culture. Meaning that we are definitely included in that generalization.  This one quote could be the basis for an entire paragraph and would genuinely support my argument. It also gives an example from a different culture that isn’t our own that emulates somewhat what men are like in this country. To mate for life or not? That is the question.

helppp

my laptop at home keeps having the screen go black. will post tomorrow in the library.

For the paper

I am always very nervous to choose the topic of a paper that is worth pretty much half of my grade in a given class. And in this case super nervous cause I don’t want to choose something that I don’t want to write about for seven pages. The episode I am going to choose is the one where Inara sleeps with the virgin. I think that bringing forth the topic of sex in our society will give me a lot to go on as well as the misconception that to become a man sex is some kind of a rite of passage. I will be able to pull in research from many different sources one in particular I want to look into is things such as in the cave men era. Did they really club women and drag them back to their caves just to sleep with them? I will find out. So there is a lot of real world connection I can use. I am still thinking about what exactly my thesis will be. This is normally the hardest part of the paper to put into words for me. I want to somehow incorporate that there is much more to being a man then just having sex as well as bringing up maybe the flip side and discussing that having sex isn’t the way women look at becoming a woman. As well as re-entering the scene between Inara and the young man where his father is persisting his son to become a man and saying that he is an embarrassment and paralleling that with the way our society views sex.

Friends Without Benefits

This show gets more and more graphic as each episode continues. In this episode our old friend Niska returns and captures Mal and Wash. Zoe and Wash got in a fight which caused Wash to accompany the Captain get kidnapped and be tortured. The most exciting part of this episode was where everyone on Serenity took up arms against Niska’s ship and went in to save the Captain. You got to see how much of a badass Zoe is and even Book got in on the action. The part I most want to discuss though is the fact that Wash was jealous of Zoe and the Captain’s relationship. This brings up the question I’m sure most of you have heard and that is can men and women be simply just friends? In some cases people always say that one or the other is interested in the person and that is why they spend so much time with them and take the chance to get to know each other. On the other hand I have heard that at one point one was interested but then realized they had no chance and settled for friends. This is a topic of interest for me especially because I live with guys and we all look at each other as family. I would hope that none of them would ever think or have thought otherwise but it would be interesting to hear what everyone has to say on this topic. All of us would like to think that we can be friends without strings attached to the opposite sex. But is it possible?

Ariel

When Simon came to the Captain saying he had a plan to say the least it shocked me. Maybe this was because he didn’t seem to be a criminal mastermind or maybe it was due to the fact that he wanted to go into an alliance hospital where he and River were known wanted fugitives but either way it was a surprising twist. An even more surprising twist was when you found out Jayne had called the feds to turn them in. I kept hoping throughout the episode that Jayne would change his mind and then when he didn’t it was a disappointment. Although I know that Mal has said he isn’t to be trusted I am one of those people who believe that deep down everyone is good. We all have some humanity inside of us no matter how deep down it is buried. But in this episode it was proven to me that Jayne doesn’t have that sense of humanity. Even after hearing what they had done to River, how they had cut open her brain numbers of times, he still was willing to hand them over without remorse. Is it possible to feel that little for another human life? Could you really be so selfish that you would take money over another’s right to live? It brings up the age old question, are we born evil or do we become evil from what life brings upon us?  Maybe Simon should’ve put Jayne under the brain scan machine. Maybe then at least in the case of Firefly we may have an answer.

Out of Gas.

This episode made me realize how much I actually like watching this show. The fact that I didn’t want them all to die I think says something about this new relationship I have with sci-fye, or at least with Firefly. The best part about this episode was that you got to see some flashbacks from before the crew all knew each other and even before Serenity was their home. I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t go more into the relationship with Zoe and Wash I wanted to see how after she didn’t like him at first they came to be married. Maybe they will go more into depth on that topic when you finally get to learn a little more about Zoe. We had her in class last week as our character for the analysis and I came to realize that even though I have watched this show consistently I still don’t know much about her. Every other character seems to be developing and she hasn’t really had her episode yet. Her and Wash are almost just background characters at the moment and I hope the develop more in the upcoming episodes. The other part of this episode that absolutely shocked me was that Kaylee was having sex with the old engine repair man. She seemed so sweet and innocent the entire show and it made me look at her in an entirely new light. It makes me think that she has more to her then meets the eye as well.

Inara and the virgin.

The scene I want to discuss from this episode of Firefly is the part where Inara is hired to take a man’s virginity. The reason she is hired is because the father wants to make his son a “man”. After the deed is done so to speak the man is lying in bed next to her and says that he thought he would feel different. The sad thing about this is that in our society today this may be how the younger generation is viewing sex. More as a competition to see who can be the first to lose their virginity. I know it hits close to home with me because the rumor going around my high school before I went to college was that at the freshman building you weren’t considered cool unless you had had sex. I may be old fashioned and sounding like my mother but at the age of 15 you have no idea what you are looking for in another human being and also the hormones are raging so you are much more likely to be unstable and self conscious about it after the fact. The thought of those girls having to go through that kind of emotional turmoil fighting between what will make them popular and what they have been brought up to value makes me sick. Being a teenager is already hard as it is this added pressure is just plain cruel and sad. The worst part would be being a parent and having to just sit back and hope that you taught your child the best you possibly could so that they stay out of harms way.