Saturday, March 29, 2008

"Bad guys lie to get into your bed, good guys lie to get into your heart"
"insert lame quote here because I can't think of any at this moment in time"

I HATE generalizations like these that attempt to put all guys into one category and all girls into a separate one. These lame quotes that frivolous people just love to use as their msn screen names or carve on their hands or whatever are SEXIST. It is ludicrous and demoralizing, not to mention annoying.

I hate it so much when people do this. Especially when a generalization is written by a girl about a guy that has 'broken' her heart. You fool, women have worked so hard to earn their rights in the past and here you are just throwing them away and trampling on their efforts. Feminists from the age of the bra burners did not work so hard just to have people like you move backwards. Every time you make a statement like that it only shows the world, and especially men, your inability to be independent.

So many females, especially girls from the younger generation forget that the world for women wasn't always like this and it still isn't like this for many women in other countries. Women didn't always have the same rights as men do now and there was always gender discrimination against women. Women weren't always allowed to work, and they weren't always allowed to vote and for God's sake they weren't even allowed to be dressed in a certain way without causing a scandal. We can be thankful that times have changed and we have become so accustomed to the fact that women and men are given the same rights that we forget so much to bloody use them. So many girls are just happy to be dumb and vacant, to be beautiful and to just become a trophy wife. Breast enhancements and botox and liposuction. We as a gender are working backwards.

You go to a private girls' school like mine and you realise just how content some girls are being dependent on others. Sometimes it just makes me want to laugh cynically because you hear girls on a rampage of how girls are smarter than boys and what not but then you turn around and the same person just says so loudly "Oh God, I can't change light-bulbs, my dad has to do all of it. It's such a man's job". In what world does changing a friggin light bulb equate to being harder than doing a quadratic formula. Little gender generalized comments like these are sexist and backward. You fight so hard to prove to everyone that girls are smarter than boys but then you just stab yourself in the back when you claim you can't drive a manual car because there are too many things to think about and only guys drive manual cars. There goes that multi-tasking theory.

And that thing so repulsive it makes me want to slap anyone who says it seriously, "Girls never have to pay for anything when they are attached" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is the whole dependancy factor once again coming into play. It is a gesture so symbolistic of something from a different era. It symbolizes women not being able to pay for themselves and having to depend on a man to pay for dinner or a movie. You have a job, and even if you don't you get money from your PARENTS SO WHY WHY WHY do you HAVE to insist that the boy has to pay EVERY single time you are out.

And single sex schools, don't even get me started on the impracticality of single sex schools. You are NOT separated by your sex in any other situation in the real world (in a liberal country of course) so why should children be subjugated to being separated based on sex at their most impressionable age. The idea of there always being a separation between the sexes is there in our subconscious.

It is so hard to be independent and to be free of gender generalizations in todays society. There is always something that follows your around, and it is hard to say quite clearly that these generalizations are simply not true. We all want to blame our heartaches on the undeniable difference between women and men but don't we all want to same thing at the end of the day? We are all human. We are driven by our sexuality, our ambition and our dreams. These things that some people see as a separation between the sexes are sometimes merely a matter of contrasting ambitions. Some people just don't want the same things at the same time and this is not because of our sex, it is because we are driven by different things. This contrast has to be stop being explained by just a mere difference in genders so that we can all have a future where our personalities are not determined by what sex we are.