Thursday, April 26, 2007

Guys and girls at school

What I learnt about guys and girls at school..

If you want to be a cool, popular guy you will have to:
Say swearwords, smoke, have a girlfriend and act in a superficial, cold way.

If you want to be a cool, popular girl you will have to:
Know millions of guys, have no limits towards guys, have a boyfriend and act in a superficial, “cute” (=stupid, honourless) way.

In my whole life I only met 4 girls who are not affected by this mindset and if I forget about the swearwords maybe only 2 guys but I really respected these people and I guess they were one of the reasons that made me get disgusted by this whole “I want attention, be cool and I’m ready to do anything to achieve that!” attitude while the “swimming against this current” attitude took over my life.

2 comments:

Nada said...

I don't think being superficial or having no limits is the problem of guys and girls we know at school. Honesty, courage and self criticism is what we lack. Unluckily, some people refuse to talk or discuss it, I just feel sorry for them.

Nadia said...

Ignoring values like honesty and self-criticism has the result of being superficial.
And I would replace the "some" to "many" people.

And I frankly believe that giving up lots of the borders between the two genders plays a huge role at our school because if you kiss a guy while playing "Spin the bottle" and then say: "It was just a kiss, no big deal!" then you are not just superficial but also going below the limits.