Thursday, February 27, 2014

Today was great!

If you read my last entry, you'd know that I've been pretty distressed when it comes to my grades and school and reading. I've been slumping lately, fully engulfing myself in the art of writing, and today, I think, I was right on track!
In language arts, the test I assumed I would fail turned out to be very, very, easy. I breezed right through it with only one or two difficulties. Hooray!
In math and science I actually understood what was going on. And then in Social Studies we did a test that was fairly easy and also my crush was being really nice to me!!

So me and my crush went to the library together since we finished our assignments early, and we played around most of the time, but I actually got a book. It's called "It's Kind Of A Funny Story" and based off of the 19 pages I've read so far, I think it's actually going to be great. I can't wait to keep reading.
I just completed my homework, ON TIME, and I'm in a pretty good mood. Except for the fact that I ate WAY too much today and I feel really gross. Thanks for reading, thanks, thanks, thanks!

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Totally obsessed with writing!

Oh my God! I literally have not posted here in forever! I'm really sorry. I hope you'll still read! Anyways, I'd like to give a big round of applause to Chloe Gadsby-Jones, my new biggest role model, because she is absolutely amazing! Whoo hoo! 
Anyways, because of Chloe I've joined NaNoWriMo, and I can't wait until November because she's basically got me obsessed with writing for the past few months. I'm going to a writing summer camp. I've submitted to lots of magazines, recently. Basically I'm really enjoying myself because I love putting words onto paper and creating characters. Heck, I just love creating things in general, as long as it makes at least one person smile.
So yeah, in other news I got into this super advanced school and I'm really excited about it. Les Miserables was amazing, and I found my 5th grade teacher. And at the moment I'm kind of in an education stump. I've stopped caring about my tests but then getting really pissed at myself for getting a bad grade. And I can't find a good book to read. The only thing I'm interested in is the Social Studies Textbook!
And THAT'S only because I don't want to get a bad grade but then I do! I don't know what's happening! Oh, crap. This entry is going off topic. I'm really sorry, but I should be studying. At least I talked about literature...kind of. Bye, my 11 readers!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Rape Culture

(Holy crap! I'm sorry, 11 readers~!! I haven't written here in forever. Mostly because I've slacked on my book reading. I'm really sorry about that. I recently finished a book called 'Wasteland' by Francesca Lia Block. I didn't write a review, but I did add my rating of 2 stars. Regardless, here is the goodreads book link. Click here. )

Okay. So, if you've been keeping up with my posts, and you read the first one, you'd know I'm a huge feminist. Yeah. A 12 year old feminist. How common is that? Anyways, here are some things that really bother me.

Victim blaming: The belief that when a girl is raped (or even a guy) it is her/his fault. People usually say 'she was asking for it' because she was wearing revealing clothes or 'sexy' things.
Why is this wrong? OH MY GOD. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH VICTIM BLAMING. A  girl should be able to wear anything she wants without the fear of being raped. She should be able to go out NAKED without the fear of being raped. It is never the victim's fault. It's the rapist's. ALWAYS.

Rape jokes: The most common ones are 'rape face' and 'rape memes.' (As if memes weren't terrible enough!) People talk about rape as if it's funny, something that happens so often that you can make it into a joke. 
Why is this wrong? BECAUSE RAPE IS DISGUSTING AND WRONG! YOU SHOULD NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BE MAKING JOKES ABOUT IT! I SWEAR TO GOD!

Now, I'm just going to share something that happened at my school. Last year, when I was going somewhere else, a teacher sexually abused his students. He was fired of course. Thank you.
But my crazy Christian, judgmental, rude enemy in the Bible Study Group (Read first post of this blog) was friends with the girl who was raped by that atrocity of a teacher..and her father told her he couldn't talk to her anymore because she was 'unpure!'
FIRST, IT WASN'T HER FAULT SHE WAS RAPED. 
SECOND, NOTHING IS WRONG WITH LOSING YOUR VIRGINITY. IN SHORT, VIRGINITY IS A STUPID TERM.
THIRD, THEY SHOULDN'T BE SHUNNING HER. THEY SHOULDN'T BE WASHING THEIR HANDS OF HER. THEY SHOULD BE SUPPORTING HER. THEY SHOULD BE STANDING UP AGAINST RAPE CULTURE AND BLAMING THE RAPIST.

GOD, I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SOCIETY. I JUST..UGH!!!