Thursday, August 15, 2013

"Aye blue dress"

MY NAME IS ALEXIS! 

Sometimes I hate guys......yes sometimes I hate guys and no I'm not a man hater.

I dislike being "chose" or "hollered at" which ever one your familiar with. What ever happened to coming up and saying "Hello, how are you?" instead of "Ayeee yo you...naww you in da white shirt come hurr....whyy you walkin away?? mane fuck yo ugglass anyways my main bitch red". Okay maybe the last one was a stretch but you get the point. Its annoying and disrespectful! Can I breathe? Can you not look at me like I'm prey?!!?

I know typing about isn't going to stop it from happening but sometimes a girl gotta rant.


- Lexi J. 

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Undecided Major.

One of the questions your're going to get most while being a senior in HS or in college is "What is your major?" from your family, fellow peers and teachers. For some of you it's a no brainer you know you were born to be the next top lawyer in the state or to be a buisness man. As the for the rest of us, we're still trying to figure it out aka "liberal arts majors" dipping our toes into almost every area of the work fields. It's a lost feeling sorta, you know what you don't wanna do but you don't know what it is that you want to do. Just like my favorite 90's cartoon Daria said "My goal is to not to wake up at 40 with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life on a job I hate, because I was forced to choose to a job in my teens." 

Monday, June 10, 2013

Sexual harrassment : Middle/ High School

When your eleven you start developing or you started already. You start wearing bras and all the boys in class would laugh, be amazed or even pick with them. That's where it all starts. Your hips are starting show all the boys notice. Trading in pigtails for a free flowing hair du, those cute little gymshoes are now leather ankle boots. You are becoming a young woman.

When you hear the term young woman, you think of something strong. Maybe even independent, beautiful, charming, smart, witty and optimistic. Those are all true. What about what goes on beyond what we know or what we choose to talk about. What about when you had to pick out clothes to avoid harassment for that school day or when you had to avoid walking past the group of boys so they wouldn't talk about your breasts. Or maybe for the other perspective if you had to avoid wearing something or walking past that group of guys because they would talk about your boyish figure. Why don't we talk about those things.

Sexual Harassment isn't always black and white. I have had my butt grabbed countless times without knowing who it was or without my consent. Why do young boys think this is an okay thing to do? What gives them the right to do the reckless things they do. We are equal human beings don't make me feel like a lesser one.