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Parents Upset After School Yearbook Lists George W. Bush, Dick Cheney as Worst People of All Time {ParentDish}
Jun 2nd 2011 9:16PM Pardon me, but I'm a Highschool Junior. Unlike my peers, while buying a yearbook would be nice, they are far too expensive and I don't really bother much. But have you asked yourselves this.... Aren't the kids going to question why those people's names were put there? Seriously, everyone, kids know what's what when they see it, I'm sure they know better than to blindly think "OMG, GWB Is bad!". Surely, you must be jesting? This would be a great opprotunity for the children to open up thier minds to critical thinking. It's not like the kids even care about those on the politcal spectrum. And I question, Charles Manson? Really? He killed a celebrity. Not thousands of Muslims and Jews or Wiccans or Agnositics during the Inquesition. If they really care, don't you think they'll bother on "I wonder why" and search it up? For example, as a child, I was very confused over the contoversey over Michael Jackson. I didn't know what crime he did, but I researched it, about his life, his personality, and came to the conclusion that what I heard was totally untrue. That the way they portrayed him prior to his final years was proven untrue, and that the alledged victim, Maluakay Culkin, testified that he was not touched innappropriately by Michael Jackson in anyway, and he happens to maintain that testimony and admittance to this very day, while people still try to kill MJ's memory with a nonissue that was proven false in court years ago. Regardless of what you believe, I have a sound opinion on an issue at a time where people told me the exact opposite, expecting me to adhere to keeping the social stigma against him. But I was never just another sheep. Becasue I heard of something and cared enough to research further into it, I've not only gained knowledge on injustice and the overreaction of human shock even in the face of solid evidence, but I know that I'm a better person for being able to sympathsize and consider what may have actually happened on both parties. It's one of the things that made me decide that I wnat to be a lawyer someday. So as long as it's not preaching anything like hate, it doesn't really matter, but I still kinda think that it may have ruined the yearbook as something pretty stupid, all from a bunch of people who aren't even the students and aren't even talking about some matter the students would actually like talking about, like videogames or icecream flavors or what to do over summer vacation.
Abercrombie & Fitch Selling Padded Bikini Tops for Tweens {ParentDish}
Mar 29th 2011 6:30AM I was endowed when I was young as ten. I'm 16 now. When I "developed" I really hated it and wanted simple plain kids clothing that fit me. Now of coarse, it's different, but I'd say I dress modestly compared to chicks like Emma. My mom would love dressing me up.... in dresses.... and with lipstick..... I absolutely revolted all of it and would've rather played, but I was an outcast as a child. If you wnat to do your children a favor, don't get them something they obviously don't need. It's not even stylish, just creepy. Why'de they come up with this?
Mercury Retrograde Love Dos and Don'ts {HuffPost Horoscopes}
Mar 29th 2011 6:21AM Um, I'm someone who doesn't have the time to learn what a Mercury Retrograde is since it's 6:15 AM. I loved reading about astrology 3 years ago when I had internet time to spare *I'm 16 now* but this seems really confusing to the average person who simply wants to read thier love horoscope for this week. I'm sorry if I sound ignorant for not having the time to find out what any of this article means, and it sounds all interesting, but I was really expecting I could read a horoscope and move on. Is everyone else really this well versed in the art of astrology? Because honestly, I don't know how the actual planets's positions relate to me. I refer, of coarse, to when something's written like "And Venus will figure in your love life", I get that venus represents love and beauty and feminism, but most astrology articles list out the horoscope by sign. Does this entire article apply to just anyone? Because I honestly don't get it and I'd be thrilled to know how to read it.
Feeling Lonely? Mac & Cheese Might Be the Cure {Slashfood}
Mar 29th 2011 6:08AM I can't keep reading this and feel disgusted. Feminist's post, while pretty much harsh and probaly typed out of passion as well as being pretty much out of nowhere, it's actually relevant and quite a viewpoint. For all of you saying she's a hypocrite, even if she has a kid, if you read her actual words rather than the tone it's it, you'de realize that she's responding to a sexist remark made by Harold, the first person to reply to Sonya's comment. Is it just me, or is everyone missing the elephant in the room? THAT'S WHAT FEMINIST WAS REFERING TO. It wasn't just some random attack out of nowhere. If ANYONE is to be a troll here, it's Harold. Am I the only person in the room who bothers to read everything? God forbid any of you make desicions that could alter someone else's life other than the people who have the disadvantage of knowing you if you simply skipped over to Feminist's comment and assumed she's randomly attacking housewives. I couldn't believe such a ridiculous guess like that without looking where that came from. It's clear that her comment is directed at Harold, I'm appalled that none of you find his comment as shocking or idiotic as Feminist did. I for one do not agree with the angry feminist stereotype, and think both men and women are at a disadvantage with someone like that in the room. But I'd say that Feminist's reponse is well justified with a comment as closeminded and vulgar as Harold's. And the housewives thing? That is a thing to consider. Shes talking about women who legitally don't do enough than they should, and if there are women out there who cannot meet the qualities of a parent, they should protect themselves and plan these things. Is that a negative? Wrong, that was part of the feminist movement.... that a woman should control and plan her own family, especially if the traditional nurturing role is going to be placed on her. Is that being hypocritical? Again, for those of you I'm guessing you still think the opposite of what she intended, she's obviously zeroing in at mothers who were unwilling or unfit to begin with, not every chick with kids who doesn't have a job. She's complaining about women who honestly didn't plan what they were doing, made a serious lapse in judgement, got pregnant, and now can barely take care of themselves, let alone provide the time and needs for children. Would you still risk having a child if you didn't even know how to take care of yourself? If you say "yes", then you are selfish, irresponsible, and must contain your lower impulse until you at least know the basics of childcare if an "accident" is going to happen. There are too many childrne out there in the world already without parents, probaly left on a churchdoorstep. Yes, there are other causes, but this is one of them. If you know you can't take the heat, don't risk it for pleasing someone who probably wouldn't support you. And one, if any of you disagree with the former point I just expressed, then keep in mind that regardless, I'm not the one who's getting hurt. It's a kid somewhere who's parent's didn't have the money, the time, or even the mentality and sense of repsonsibility to care for him, and now he's in an orphanage, a type of limbo, waiting for a family with resources and compassion to adopt him. Recognizing that there are some of us shouldn't be parents, especially if they can't bear the brunt of responsibility and planning these things out or even knowing how to take care of ourselves before having children, isn't hypocritical. My mom works very, very hard at her job, and has to put up with me and my sibs. I'm 16. I help her out all I can with telling them what not to do and to be good, and frankly, I now know that I don't want my own children in the future. And if my mind changes, I'll make sure I've got a stable life, the sense of undertaking the responsibilty, and that I won't give up. Otherwise, I would've just failed the child. Oh, and to stay relevant, comfort food, really? i was expecting something healthier that would make you perk up. Mac and Cheese? I'm severly dissappointed, I'm doing a ressearch paper on Bulimia, and our society is legitally becoming fatter and fatter up to the point that being overwieght has become the norm. I should know, I'm 4'9 really short and wiegh 130 pounds. And it disgusts me that AOL would put this article under such a title, right when the same "featured" page it was on was already offering a cheesy pasta recipe, when we have such an unhealthy average body composition in this country. That's just pathetic and sad.
Woman Claims She Was Fired by TSA for Being a Wiccan {AOL Travel News}
Mar 28th 2011 9:58PM To the double Aa's (Aarisa and Aarwin Orelli), you guys sound totally cool and I hope you find the understanding and equality when people figure out that Sabrina the Teenage Witch was never a reality series. I get you with how people misunderstand you, though to a lesser extent. People look at me and how dark my style is (I like dressing casually in black and white and like reading creepypasta, but I'm not goth or anything and I'm really quiet all the time). Once this girl came up to me and was like "Are you a Satanist?" and I was like "No!" and all shocked by such a question. Her friend apologized and they walked away and I stood there like "WTH?". I'm really a moderate Muslim. I hum song lyrics when I'm alone and look at the wall so I don't look ackward, just staring into space without anyone to talk to. I guess that may have led to some confusion. Still though, it appalls and confounds me to how they could've jumped to such an idea. This happened in 8th grade or so, and now I'm the 11th grade, my Junior year of Highschool. I constantly look for AOL articles to defend my faith from the ignorant masses who I desperately wish to believe were really bad trolls. I even get disgusting responses, despite clearly telling th other commenters what age I was and that I wasn't gong to stand to hear such disgusting things being said about my religion, Islam. I think people take one look at me, quiet, out of the way, not so attractive for a teen, short and raven hair kept healthy with olive oil, and they probaly think I'm a dark muslim like how they would depict in a rascist old timey cartoon (think Jafar from Aladdin). Just because I'm forbidden to date, can't wear a skirt, and live a sheltered life, and honetsly don't like trying to dance doesn't mean I wouldn't appreciate being another pretty girl with a mind. I mean, you see all these movies with white blond chicks where a guy gets to her face and the narrator for a trailor says "You'll fall in love with her.... charismatic.... lovely..... and bright" and all us other girls who aren't caucasion end up with "Strong and fighting to be known". What the hell? Just because I'm muslim doen't mean I wouldn't like having my beauty acknowledged in description more than just some cheesy minority targetted film. I don't ask for sympathy (although it's a nice thing), but I demand both equal respect, acknowledgment, and as much attention as my white christian friends. Which I don't have much of because they probaly single me out. Just today, I was the only one in the front of my AlgebraII/trig class who did my work, as the other gals played Uno in the back of the classroom. The teacher was out and we had a sub. I'm being creditted as the only one who tried to do the classwork the tecaher left us, but I wonder if anyone ever genuinely wants to know me or just feels sorry seeing me alone at my desk. Don't give up. God is there for all us. I don't know if Wiccans believe in God the same way I do, but to me, as well as in Islam, he wouldn't let injustice like this happen. Those who are righteous will be granted a lovely life, peaceful without any intrusion. And such a promise probably is extended to everyone else, even if they're not Muslim. It's the natural law of absolute right. God bless you guys. :-D
Woman Claims She Was Fired by TSA for Being a Wiccan {AOL Travel News}
Mar 28th 2011 9:25PM Really? So, the rest of her coworkers are all mentally sane, healthy and open minded atheists and/or agnostics? I've always viewed Wicca as a type of spirituality, until I saw it was completely it's religion years ago. And if I'm mistaken, then which "woman" are you refering to, exactly? No one had harmed anyone else here. I'm muslim, and I know that most christians view my faith negatively these days and say we're closed minded (really? I don't recall us being the ones who practiced bloodletting as a "legitmate medical practice" and astronomy while Europeans thought the universe was geocentric) and I find this harsh and discriminatory. Even I would accept this Wiccan, and Wiccanism isn't even one of the more accepted ancd known monotheistic religions (Judiasm, Islam, Christianity). What possible fault would it be of hers that got her fired if not simply being a Wiccan and being assualted by such an outlandish claim? It's not mentioned anywhere. And I find her response to being written up for minor things amusing as well as poetically just.
SmackDown: Would You Let Your Tween Wear Makeup? {ParentDish}
Feb 2nd 2011 7:38PM Hey, I'm a 16 year old girl. How about asking me? The only thing I ever use is eyeliner and lip balm, and sometimes gloss, but that's like rare and occasional. I did eyeliner at 14, and my eyes itched. It was retarded. Some of my eyelashes fell out, so now I have to wear the eyeliner just to "make up" for that. Unless you want a little girl pawing at her eyes and face *that helps increase acne and tension* don't let her have make up besides lip balm. And it's been proven that lip gloss contributes to lip burn in the sun, like oil on greens in a frying pan. I wore lip gloss alot last summer, and although I used an umbrella, they were really chapped by the end of summer vacation. I had to keep lip balm on my lips and I would grate my lips with my own teeth to "massage" them, to encourage and allow it to get it moist, soft and deeper in color. If you guessed that it was painful and required me with my two large front teeth grating over my bottom lip during the day, and then washing my lip and re apply lip balm, and come to the conclusion taht what went on is pretty terrifying, well, you're right. Not to mention, application of eyeliner and eyeshadows cause creases near the eye. It's never too soon to screw up your body. I learned that the hard way, although people say I'm pretty decent to look at, and I do everything at a minimum, I still know the consequence of aging, but I don't plan on cosmetic surgery in the future, it's a shame in my culture as well as sounding every bit stupid to me. Age with grace like fine wine, I say. I honestly think we push our kids to mature too fast, and sexually exploit them purely by what we represent around them. I'm not saying children will turn into something disrespectful. But ebfore they can start stuff like make up, they really need to undergo a life transformation, after mentally maturing and accepting the consequence of make up use, and whether if it really does represent them how they wish to be respresented. I wore my eyeliner for a light dark look *Gothic, kinda* but my friends said it bought out an exotic sense in me *I'm Indian, actually. Not bad, though, it's pretty cool*. I'm an artist of a child, and even I waited past twelve. Twelve isn't even a teen age. It's such a woerd age to suggest matureity for make up. If you say that's the age, won't other children try to jump the gun? I say 14 is appropriate, where some bodies seem better. It's so wierd to give make up to children, they're so perfect,. Haven't any of you read "Cather In The Rye"? So I hope that to all you mothers who think it's okay for kids being kids, just remember not to let them take it as a serious or nessacary thing that they feel they MUST DO, other than it's intended purpose, refinement and creativeity. It requires sophistication to use make up, you've got to be mature about it if you want it part of your daily life.
Cursive Handwriting Getting Erased as Schools Teach Typing Over Script {ParentDish}
Jan 24th 2011 4:59PM I'm 16 years old, and while many of my peers may text in the middle of class, I rather work on my neat and artisty *both by how they appear and what I've written* essays. I used to have trouble in school, and I was even considered for Special education at one point in my childhood. But if there was one place I was consistent in from the very beginning, it was learning how to write in cursive. Now I'm in two AP classes *English/Composition and US History*, and I much perfer handwriting. My midterm is next week, and getting all my remaining work aside, I sure as heck would rather use script than type anything down on a hard, impersonable computer. Hello, how are we to make anymore distinguishable signatures without at least some of us using cursive? It's artistic. It's intelligent. Beautiful. Then again, I may have had easier time since I'm Muslim and American-Indian *In my culture, calligraphy is cool! Teachers look at my posters and say I should be a calligraphist :-D.*. When I was a little girl, I would put tender loving care into every little letter in my workbook. Oh, it was wonderful. The pictures in tehre were funny, and had animals. And it was colored! Yay! Anyway, if we give up script, we may as well give up showing kids how to draw or fold thier own clothes. We're already giving in to a cold, automated world. We might as well show kids how beautiful and stressfree scriptive handwriting can be, and it can be an optional course. At least make your work your own.
Color Diary: A Tribute to Turquoise Rooms {Shelterpop}
Jan 24th 2011 4:42PM Turquise creeps the hell out of me. Porcelain and vases aside, it's like I'm in a mental hospital with a bunch of blood filled syringes lying around. Don't ask why, that's just the image that pops up if I see too much Turquoise that's not Priness Rosalina's dress or a can of Arizona iced tea.
Michael Jackson Estate Bans 'Moonwalker' at L.A. Theater {The Boombox}
Jan 22nd 2011 12:23AM I know that I might be the least credible person on this topic considering I both love Michael Jackson and consider him innocent of the trials where he allegedly molested some 13 year old, but this is about a movie and his legacy and entertainment in general. Whatever you say, you can't deny that he's made contributions through philantrophy and is an iconic celebrity from this country who's art has never failed, who's endured a harsh and isolated childhood and has captured most of our hearts with his shy personality away from stage. His work and passion had created a new standard for pop music and choreography, and to this day, you can see many of his moves imitated by others. Justin Timberlake was particularily influenced by him. This article isn't imposing anything but a simple fact. There's no use of pathos or ethos anywhere, niether is there any hint of the writer persauding you to start a petition or anything. You're all just being vindictive, and that makes you the enabler of the watering down of society's so called "strides" in entertainment and our general lack of compassion for actually nice, good people who feel too scared or ostracized from the rest of society to even try to enter it and live a happy, normal life.
