Wednesday 16 March 2011

Sexism.

Okay, so basically, sexism is obviously a huuuge issue that seems to effect a lot of people everyday. Stereotypically it is believed that men are the breadwinners, and women should stay at home, doing housework and nurture for their children (if they have any). In my opinion, this is a load of bollocks. Oh, and whilst I'm on the topic, get in the kitchen and make yourself a sandwich lazy buggers. Also, what's this whole thing about women can't play football as well as men, or do certain jobs that men do, get over yourself, and open your eyes, this is the 21st century, stop living in the past><. Also many of you complain that you don't have girlfriends, maybe it's because you treat us like shit eh?
Anyway, before I get too tracked on men being sexist, us women can also be quite sexist too. Most of us complain that they spend too much time on their xbox's, or that they're all players, stop putting them under one roof, and open your eyes, there is plenty of nice guys out there.
Anyway, rant over, to conclude all this, no gender is the better gender, we are all equal, so grow up, and face the facts.
Izziiee xox

Friday 4 March 2011

Is there such thing as a perfect family type?

In modern day society, you see many things on the news about the perfect family, but is there really such a thing? I mean there is so many different family types that exist now. Some of these are; Nuclear family, Lone parent family, Same sex parent family, Cereal-packet family, Reconstituted family, Beanpole family, Empty nest family/ Empty shell family, Extended family, Adopting family, Fostering family, Marifocal family, Blended family, Neo-conventional family, Dual-earner family, Patriarchy family. You get the point, there a lot of different family types, are any of them perfect? What makes a perfect family? Love? Happiness? Trust? All these things do, and we can have all these things in all family types. But we can also have mistrust, hatred and sadness in all of these family types to. According to the media, the perfect family type is the cereal packet family (A family that consists of A mother, a father and one/ two children). This is the family type we see in all the cheese-string, yoghurt etcetc adverts. But say if there was domestic abuse going on in this family, then it wouldn't be perfect would it? But yet, a lone-parent family, may not be seen so kindly in the media, yet there might be so much love, happiness etcetc in this family, surely then, you can't stereotype the perfect family, due to a family type. It's the people in the family that make it a perfect family.
So in my opinion, there is no perfect family TYPE, but there are perfect INDIVIDUAL familys.
Izziiee xox

Musical differences.

Okkayy basically, a while ago, I had a few girls coming up to me (naming no names- ceebs with an argument) and saying that I had shit taste in music, as they put it. And I actually get this quite often to be honest. (I listen to screamos, rock, metal etc). When people make trashy comments on my music style I actually get quite annoyed with them, and don't understand why they do it. 
But a few days ago, I myself was making trashy comments on a few peoples music styles (they were listening to Justin Bieber). I felt bad afterwards for what I had said, as I know how I feel when people do it about my music style. It's also made me realise that we aren't ever going to accept everybody's music styles, but does this mean that one's worse than the other? And should we all just grow up, and take note that everyone has musical differences. 
Izziiee xox

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Stereotyping.

People these days are obsessed with labelling everybody. Just to give you an idea I shall name some of these stereotype groups, because once you see them all wrote out, your'll realise how extreme, and how far it's gone. Emo, goth, indie, mosher, skater, chav, slag, scene, punk, geek etcetc- and these are just the individual person, people are also stereotyped due to their religion, or where they live/ come from, gender, age etcetc. Another word for stereotyping is prejudice, which means pre judging somebody. A cliché term for this is 'judging a book by it's cover'.  Judging anybody for any reason is wrong, as song in a Paramore song 'next time you point a finger, I'll point you to the mirror'. However, no matter how wrong we know it is, we still find ourselves doing it all the time, but why? Maybe we don't agree with their morals, norms or values. But does this give us right to say what they believe is wrong? Because when it comes to it, are any of us right? What some people believe to be morally right, we might believe it to be morally wrong, but is this a good enough reason to judge them? I say that there is never a good enough reason to judge someone, and again, others would disagree with this.
Like I said earlier, although we know it's wrong we still do it, maybe because the media is constantly judging celebrities that we look up to and inspire to be like, and it also judges celebrities that we maybe aren't to found of. But either way, the media is always judging someone, and by saying this I'm judging the media? See, we all find ourselves doing it. 

Some would say 'emos' are idiots (this is just an example) and hey they're not, some might be, but then again some 'chavs' or some 'skaters' maybe idiots, we can't pin something down on someone just because they're a certain stereotype, or live in a certain place.
So anyway, sorry if I've confused you at all, but I just don't understand why everyone can't be accepting?

Lecture over.
Love Izziiee xox

Why are teenagers portrayed so badly in the media?

Okaayy, we've all read the stories in the newspapers, or heard them on the news. You know, the ones, about things like teenagers smoking, drinking, taking drugs, having under age sex, carrying knives etcetc. And because of these stories everyone seems to think that ALL teenagers are like this, and they tell us things like 'If they bring back the cane you wouldn't act like this'. Truth is society's moved on, and hey, you're the guys that raised us to be this way, remember that? However, not all teenagers are sex driven, drug taking maniacs, some of us can tell right from wrong. So don't put us all under one roof, we're not all bad kids. Some of us are going to play quite important roles in society once your generation retire, and hey guess what? Hate on us all you want, but just remember we're the ones who will be running your retirement homes.  
Love Izziiee xox

Keyboard warriors.

Ohhaiider:3.
Okay I am the only one that hates the ability of people to 'go anon' when posting comments/ questions on these social websites? Basically I have this account on a little thing called formspring, and recently I've been getting 'questions' saying things such as; 'you a emo', 'please dont cut me' and 'die in a hole emo grl haha'. Firstly, if you're going to insult me, learn how to spell, and be grammatically correct would you? Thirdly, grow some balls and show you're name, you keyboard warriors. Only say to me that which you would dare say to my face. It's people like you that are making other people do things such as self harming, or turning depressed etc. Cyber abusing people is wrong, by doing this you are just a bully, and bully's are the lowest for of existence known.
Rant over, thank-you for reading.
love Izziiee xox