So yesterday, I was watching Death Note with a friend and on the site we were watching it, an advertisement pops up before the video plays. Mine happened to be a beer commercial, and let's just say I was entirely underwhelmed. And that it was stupid. I believe my exact thoughts were something along the lines of "Fucking beer commercials, no wonder I don't drink!"
Today at work some coworkers were discussing the lewd attire commonly assiciated with high-school girls at Halloween. I've never been one to deny that lots of girls readily take advantage of the holiday as a free-for-all slutfest but I thought, maybe there's a bit more to it than that. I mean, it's pretty obvious from that conversation and others I've heard that girls that age are 100% expected to dress like sluts, like that's their only option or something. And of course everyone thinks badly of them for doing it, even though it's exactly what they've decided is going to happen.
Anyhoo, I was just thinking. We all know that is sucks to be a teenager, and I'm not going to pretend that being a girl doesn't bring on a loooot of extra baggage centered around aesthetics. You know the saying "no publicity is bad publicity"? Well I figure maybe it's sort of like that. In a word where girls are pressured so hard to be so thin, to be so drop dead gorgeous, to be so this and so that, I figure it's not hard for some of them (or hell ALL of them) to feel invisible at times. And we've seen plenty of proof that this kind of clothing can garner attention. So even if people are calling them sluts and whatever else, at least someone saw them right?
Maybe I'm 100% wrong on this, but being right isn't really important here. It was just an interesting train of thought that I wanted to get down. Maybe teenagers really are just mindless and sex-crazed and whatever else, but having been one not too long ago I can say that I think a lot of people don't really recall just how much stuff goes on inside your head during those years. So here's hoping I never forget.
Also I finally started writing my Pokemon fan fiction. Yay prologue!
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