well open up your eyes and see like me, open up your plans and damn, you're free
I'm finding myself more and more annoyed by the people that surround me daily. I know a large percentage is due to some serious pms-age right now, but I simply cannot keep myself from feeling like I'm losing a substantial quantity of brain cells at any given time being in this town. Some of it is due to pure stupidity of the interests that people invest their time in, and a lot of it is due to the amount of ignorance I'm constantly faced with. I can't figure out how to challenge these people's views without sounding like a complete asshole. A recent example:
My roommates and I were watching the premiere of America's Next Top Model last night before it was time for Palin to speak. One of the contestants this season is a transgender girl who is in the preoperative stage of transitioning (aka: she still had her man parts). My first reaction was that it was awesome because this is probably one of the first times that transgender people have been featured and represented on this kind of show. I'd gotten so sick of seeing all the contestants be the same, boring, beautiful people that you find everywhere. I was pretty pumped when they started allowing plus sized models into the competition, and I feel just the same about this transgender girl being allowed in. However. My roommates could not conceive of this being okay or at all a liberating step in direction of world diversity and toleration. Every single time they would flash this girl on the screen, one of them would say something similar to "That's really gross...I can't believe they let her in. She's a he! People like that are weird.." In addition to this girl, there is another girl on there who was asked if she was bisexual, to which she replied that she is just a very sexual person, and doesn't focus on gender. Again, another thing they couldn't let pass. "Why doesn't she just say she's bi? That's exactly what she is." Give. me. a. fucking. break. Take a fucking women's studies class for god's sakes, you ignorant, overprivileged white girls. I'm floored that you're all seniors in college and seemingly haven't received any sort of practical education applicable to the world. She didn't say she's bi because maybe that's not what she'd call herself. Should she have to slap a label on herself just so you can throw her into another "too weird to be normal" category to be stored away in your obnoxiously large closed mind ? No, she shouldn't have fit herself into some tiny black and white box in order to keep your head from exploding from sheer inability to interpret anything as lying outside those lines, or anything that overlaps or blurs those perfectly drawn lines. God forbid someone else be in a position that is very unlike your own, and heaven forbid calling them "normal" because of those differences. News flash: there is no normal. There's no standard at which humanity is to be compared. That time where there was a wife, a husband, a picket fence, and 2.4 kids is over. I mean wake the fuck up.
Unfortunately, I cannot overlook the role that this very university has played in the formation of these girls' closed minds. UGA has just about zero diversity..that I've seen anyway. I'm more than sure there are people here and there that are incredibly different than the stereotypical white, greek student...there just aren't very many of them. So it's no wonder that this college is a breeding ground of people that only see what they want to see. I should have gone to a liberal arts school. Obviously.
But I swear...if you run in one more time complaining that some girl has your boyfriend in her facebook profile picture, take my hairdryer one more time without putting it where you found it, throw one more recyclable thing in the trash, or say one more negative thing about someone you don't know, I'm gonna donate all your expensive shit to charity.
And the historical nature of Palin's speech last night was what she said in it and how it was going to affect the campaign. It was NOT that she was speaking at all. It's not enough to just know that she spoke. You f'ing moron. It makes me glad to know you probably won't vote.
I'd like to go to the football game this weekend, but I don't want to go alone, and I'm really not sure how much of these girls I can take. Tough call.
Myspace comments:
Aly: haha How bout I read this and cracked up. I know YOU weren't laughing when you wrote it, I just found it easy to laugh at because I totally identify with where you're coming from. I'm sorry your roomies suck. Been there. Done that. The only truly awesome and peaceful moment of college for me was the last part of senior year when your sister and I got to be by ourselves!!!
I'll be in Athens tomorrow tailgating... you know you're more than welcome to join the crew. Same people you've always seen in the past. I've already scheduled a political debate with Daniel because he's leaning towards McCain. So I've gotta get up early and catch him before he's drunk so that the conversation will hold some relevance and maybe he'll walk away remembering why Obama is the man to get the vote!
I don't have a ticket into the game or anything, and to be honest, I have no further plan after the "get up early, shower, drive there, find a parking place, and pour a huge drink that will make me forget life's worries" part haha So... yeah.
Hit me up if you want to.
xo night