Random thoughts time
I would really enjoy the ability to breathe right now.
Does anyone else think that Rihanna, Ciara, and Cassie (is that her name, I am so out of the popular music scene) are the same person? If not, is there really a need for all of them?
So the other night I was watching America's Next Top Model (...shut up) and seeing as how I've been sick for 3 weeks, I really didn't have the energy to change the channel when it went off. One Tree Hill came on right after. I've never watched this show before, but the main stars have had enough drama in their real lives (Aww, they play a couple, and in real life they're in love! Aww, they're getting married... Uhm... he slept with Paris Hilton the night before the wedding... Oops, less than a year later, divorce!... He's a winner, he's engaged to a 17 year old extra from the show now...), that I know it's a high school show geared to high schoolers about a high school basketball team or some such.
Imagine my shock and dismay to discover that two of the characters -- high schoolers, one is a basketball player, the other is a cheerleader, but not the leads who have already been married and divorced in real life -- are married. And it really made me think -- if you have to discuss your marital problems in the halls between classes, you're too young to be married. Further, if you have you discuss your marital problems in the halls between classes while wearing your cheerleading uniform, you're not only too young to be married, you also look completely asinine. Even further, if in the course of discussing your marital problems while in the halls inbetween classes while wearing your cheerleading uniform, if you feel the need to ask your husband if he likes another cheerleader, you're not only too young to be married and look asinine, you're way too immature to be married.
And my biggest problem with this is that they made high school marriage look cute and romantic. The married couple wrapped up their issues in a nice little bow by the end of the episode and closed the episode with them cuddling in bed, holding hands, and looking all happy (Uhm, by the way, exactly what are they living on? I only saw them at school, at a basketball game, and at a party, and last I checked, you didn't get paid to be on your high school athletic teams). To me, this is glamorizing high school marriage and I just have a basic, visceral, strong reaction against this. This is geared toward high schoolers and it's making it look not only ok to get married while in high school, but awesome to be married in high school. There are almost no reasons for high school KIDS to get married. At the very very least, I just keep thinking about how much I loved college and how fun it was, and how kids who are married are totally going to miss out on all that, even if they go to college. They should be using that time to go wild, have fun, and sow some oats. Instead, they're going to be worried about all the responsibilities that come with marriage. There is just something very wrong to me about that (along with all the other things that come with being too young to get married).
Although considering kids in elementary school and and junior high school are already sexually active, maybe kids nowadays are ready to settle down at 18.
Does anyone else think that Rihanna, Ciara, and Cassie (is that her name, I am so out of the popular music scene) are the same person? If not, is there really a need for all of them?
So the other night I was watching America's Next Top Model (...shut up) and seeing as how I've been sick for 3 weeks, I really didn't have the energy to change the channel when it went off. One Tree Hill came on right after. I've never watched this show before, but the main stars have had enough drama in their real lives (Aww, they play a couple, and in real life they're in love! Aww, they're getting married... Uhm... he slept with Paris Hilton the night before the wedding... Oops, less than a year later, divorce!... He's a winner, he's engaged to a 17 year old extra from the show now...), that I know it's a high school show geared to high schoolers about a high school basketball team or some such.
Imagine my shock and dismay to discover that two of the characters -- high schoolers, one is a basketball player, the other is a cheerleader, but not the leads who have already been married and divorced in real life -- are married. And it really made me think -- if you have to discuss your marital problems in the halls between classes, you're too young to be married. Further, if you have you discuss your marital problems in the halls between classes while wearing your cheerleading uniform, you're not only too young to be married, you also look completely asinine. Even further, if in the course of discussing your marital problems while in the halls inbetween classes while wearing your cheerleading uniform, if you feel the need to ask your husband if he likes another cheerleader, you're not only too young to be married and look asinine, you're way too immature to be married.
And my biggest problem with this is that they made high school marriage look cute and romantic. The married couple wrapped up their issues in a nice little bow by the end of the episode and closed the episode with them cuddling in bed, holding hands, and looking all happy (Uhm, by the way, exactly what are they living on? I only saw them at school, at a basketball game, and at a party, and last I checked, you didn't get paid to be on your high school athletic teams). To me, this is glamorizing high school marriage and I just have a basic, visceral, strong reaction against this. This is geared toward high schoolers and it's making it look not only ok to get married while in high school, but awesome to be married in high school. There are almost no reasons for high school KIDS to get married. At the very very least, I just keep thinking about how much I loved college and how fun it was, and how kids who are married are totally going to miss out on all that, even if they go to college. They should be using that time to go wild, have fun, and sow some oats. Instead, they're going to be worried about all the responsibilities that come with marriage. There is just something very wrong to me about that (along with all the other things that come with being too young to get married).
Although considering kids in elementary school and and junior high school are already sexually active, maybe kids nowadays are ready to settle down at 18.