Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Don't Be A Girl About It by Kelly Clarkson...way to go Kelly

Any chance you get to play the worn out pity card
Any opportunity to push my buttons hard
It's getting old, your 'poor me' thoughts
Believe me boy when I say 'so what'
This broken record thing has got to stop
I'm losing interest in your pillow talk

And oooooooh it's not looking good
And oooooooh I'm not in the mood
And oooooooh I can't get through
To you oooooooh

[Chorus]
Don't be a girl about it
'Cause I didn't say yes
Don't be a girl about it
'Cause I wouldn't pretend
Don't be a girl about it
Now you're whining again
Don't be a girl about it
You're such a girl about it

And oooooooh I'm sleeping with the enemy oh oh!
And oooooooh I'm counting sheep while you're in love

[Kelly Clarkson]
Now you're up in arms because I say we're not working out
You wonder if I loved you from the start well I tell you what
I knew a guy who changed my world
And then he grew to a little girl
This metamorphoses is just too much
You're crossing lines that I just can't let go of

And oooooooh it's not looking good
And oooooooh I'm not in the mood
And oooooooh I can't get through
To youuuuu oooooooh

[Chorus]
Don't be a girl about it
'Cause I didn't say yes
Don't be a girl about it
'Cause I wouldn't pretend

Monday, February 20, 2012

Men Can Stop Rape

MCSR is a non-profit advocacy group working with adolescent boys and young men to put a stop to the aspects of American culture that makes rape such a huge problem.  They deem everything from harmful ideas about masculinity to cat-calling girls "rape culture."  In addition to this, they work to create a new culture of respect and equality between men and women.


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http://www.mencanstoprape.org/

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Boy Meets A Compulsively Heterosexual World

     As I was watching tv waiting for a friend to finish getting ready, this episode of "Boy Meets World" came on depicting an unaccomplished, incompetent Cory and Shawn.  As Cory is blaming their "failure" on the Jocks at the school for taking all of the girls, he is approached to join the wrestling team.  During this interaction, Cory is given three thing for joining the team: 1. the Letterman jacket 2. the uniform 3. a girl.
   Through Cory and Shawn's dialogue it is clear that in order to be accomplished and competent in the adolescent setting, boys must "have" girls.  The Jocks are the cause of Cory and Shawn's failure is the Jock's taking away all of the girls, not their amazing success in academia, athletics, or drama.  The ways in which Cory becomes a part of the wrestling team is by receiving a jacket, uniform, and a girl.  It is as if becoming an athlete is as much about ownership of females as actually playing the sport.

Boy Meets World - The Thrilla in Phila Part 1