Saving Our Youth

Thinking about one of the facts along with a few other pieces, what do girls need in High School besides "Sex Ed" in order to not get pregnant, etc.?

I went to one of the most notorious high schools in New Haven. Everybody assumed that every student in the school would be one/some/all of these statistics: pregnant, suffer an early death, or drop out. And I know a lot of people who have fallen victim to these statistics. But I feel as though they followed the wrong path because they needed guidance.

Guidance from someone who chose the correct path and not their friends. Or even a parent that knows where the wrong path can lead you. And is willing to support and motivate their daughter to keep them on the correct track. Girls these days need positive role models. Everyone is so concerned with the "pathway to prison pipeline" for GUYS because they need fathers.  People should start to pay attention to devastatingly high rate of pregnancy in these children. What exactly do they believe that these girls are looking for when they find themselves pregnant. They aren't looking for gumdrops and lollipops. They are looking for love from men, to fill a void within them.

Girls do not get pregnant by themselves. Come on these are not the days in which immaculate conception still exists.

Younger people in general not only need guidance, they need protection; someone who can secure their youth/innocence. Children do not stay children for long due to the fact that people do not believe in censorship anymore. Children do not watch Disney movies anymore. I mean the Disney channel exists, but the kids on those shows are all chasing love.

In addition to guidance and protection, high school students need love. Motherly, Fatherly, Sisterly, Brotherly Love!! If these girls felt love, they would stop looking in all the wrong places

Be Your Clitoris

"She told me my clitoris was not something I could lose. It was me, the essence of me. It was both the doorbell to my house and the house itself. I didn't have to find it I had to be it."

This is probably one quote that bought the whole book of monologues together for me. When I was younger my mother used to say that I had no business having sex because I didn't even know myself or what I was doing. I used to think she didn't know what she was talking about, but as I take this journey into adulthood I now understand completely what she was referring to.

She wasn't talking about the act of sex in totality, but she was talking about knowing myself outside of sex. She meant that I had to know myself as a person, not a vagina my anatomical organ. And those words taught me a valuable lesson, that I will pass to my daughter if I am blessed to have one. I want her to learn what it is to be a women, not a vagina, coochie, or cunt a WOMEN!!

Angry Vagina

This is the Ninja Maxipad. Comical Huh?
Earlier today I found myself watching television and I seen a few tampon commercials, and the first thing that came to mind was the Angry Vagina Monologue. I found this monologue funny from the very first line.

All commercials for sanitary products depict the menstrual cycle as a blissful feeling. Which is the complete opposite of what the monthly experience actually feel like. Most women can say they have some discomfort whether it is from cramps, fatigue, bloating. But I can bet for sure that women won't tell you they feel like a flower in a garden or a happy fish in a dry pool. And from those few commercials they struck a nerve of curiosity. I wanted to compare commercials that were targeted towards women and commercials targeted towards men.

I looked at a few condom commercials and tampon commercials on youtube. And I noticed that most of the condom ads include both men and women willing to purchase or use condoms, and in all tampon ads I noticed that there is either a male or a female in the commercial. And depending upon what the purpose is, determines which of them are present.

All men hate buying tampons for women, but safe sex is both the responsibility of men and women. Interesting thought huh?  

Taking a Stand for Women

Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues may initially draw some readers away, due to the explicit title. People automatically assume that the book is saturated with sex. And it is not, although sex sales. This book is primarily about women and their struggles in the skin they're in. These monologues have the ability to touch every women in the audience, the stories are so relate-able.

Both men and women can benefit from watching a production of the monologues or from reading the book. They can learn valuable lessons that are applicable throughout everyday life. One of the biggest things I took from the book was a new found love and appreciation for myself and other women.

Women have overcome so many struggles, from not having the right to vote, to finally being accepted in the workplace that it is disgusting that women still are being mistreated. Not just solely by the hands of a man, but by society in general. Ensler touches on the many instances where women have been wronged; from women being used as sex slaves,  women being sexually mutilated, and etc.

Women are seen as sexual beings and not for what they truly are HUMANS, with red blood, hot breath, with arms and legs. We should all take a stand and care for the rights of women!