Friday 9 May 2014

This should prove to be interesting. ~ RANT ~


Okay, It's time for a rant. 

Today I did one of two things, either:
 A) Stood up for a friend and showed people they can't walk over me.
or
B) Committed social suicide. 

Okay, so here's the story. There's this girl in my year level at school and she falls under a certain "type" of girl. We all know her, she's the girl who can do whatever, whenever and totally get away with it. It's frustrating. Anyway, in one of my classes she mumbled under her breathe that one of my really good mates was a whore, and needless to say this pissed me off. As any teenage girl would have done I proceeded to make a Facebook status and while there was no name nor did it mention what class I was in or even what gender this person was, said "Girl" knew exactly what I was talking about and she private inboxed me. About a minute later, the "Girls" friend inboxed me too. Now, you know when you get a Facebook message and you haven't opened it but you can still see the first sentence or so, well I knew exactly what they wanted to talk about. One said "Is your status about me?" the other saying, "Why did you make a status about "girl?". That's really rude." At first I didn't reply to either of them because I was like 'oh great drama..' but then (and maybe it wasn't the smartest move ever) I messaged "Girl" back saying something along the lines of "What makes you think it is?" and sent her friend a simple. "Okay." 

Before I go any further I would just like to get a few things off my chest. The only reasons I replied was because I knew if I didn't they would think I was scared of them and, let me be clear, I wasn't. I also knew what she had said to my own friend and that made me mad, and I have had enough of people walking over me in my life. It was time I stood up for something/someone/myself/anything. It is crazy to me that people like myself: not an outcast, not a popular kid : can't speak out against someone 'higher' on the social ladder. There is a social protocol, things you can do and things you can't. Everything you do is judged by everyone that knows you did it. That's how society is, that how life is. Now, I'm not saying people will always judge you badly, but they have to make a decision on whether what you have done is 'acceptable' or not. More often than not if one person in the in group decides you have done something unacceptable then every blind sheep and their uncle will follow that judgement. That said there are exceptions to this rule and I'm making a generalisation. It is expected of everybody in high school, a work place, in society to act a certain way, you can't be unpredictable because that makes you weird/strange/odd or whatever word you would like to use. This whole concept I have abided by, until now. Why should I have to sit back while calls my friend a whore or crazy or bi-sexual. Not saying that any sexual orientation is wrong, just that it was frustrating that this "Girl" could get away with saying it when she hasn't had a conversation with either of the girls she was talking about. So, today was the say that I decided, NO. I'm going to stand my ground and I may regret it at first, but I'm 99% sure I will think I did the right thing in the distant future. I'm not going to act a certain way because it is what I'm expected to do. I'm simply going to do what I think is right because I believe it is the right thing to do. 


You still with me? I know this is a lot of writing but I intend to get everything off my chest. 

Anyway, needless to say standing up for myself didn't go down well with this "Girl" nor her friend. One of the main points the friend brought up to me was that I should have said what I thought to "Girl"s face rather than putting it in a status. Now look, I understand that maybe I should have done that in the first place, but I never really meant for it to get this out of hand. Let that be a lesson, be careful what you put on the internet. This frustrated me however, and so I responded with... "Same goes for her though, next time she wants to call one of my mates a whore, say it or keep it to herself, don't just mumble it to the people around you." and I meant it. This "Girl" is so hypocritical. How dare she tell me to say shit to her face when she mumbles insults all the time. *The rage is strong with this one* The arguments continued and in the end I just told them I had better things to do, but before I said that I made sure they knew that I wasn't just going to delete the status and act like nothing happened. So much happens and no one says anything, it's bullying. I was standing up for a friend and I'll be damned if they thought that I was going to back off and shut up because of their 'social ranking.' 

It's 1:09 am right now on a Saturday morning so at least everything has a weekend to calm down slightly. If this happens again, I'm going to be really pissed off. I don't want anything bad to happen, I just want to make it clear that no matter what they think they aren't above me nor my friends or anybody else for that matter. Too much of this happens in society. If this is the reason why I don't talk to certain social lights or get invited to parties, so be it. I'll have my friends, I'll have my boyfriend and one girl isn't going to take that away. At least I will think I have done the right thing in not letting this go unnoticed. I have no regrets. 

That's all for tonight. Time will tell how this went down at school.
Until next time, speak up for what you believe in.

~ Amelia Jane ~


PS: Gotta Love Sheldon <3

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