It's Better to Wait

I would like, if I may, to take you back to a time when just going off alone with a member of the opposite sex was scandalous, regardless of whether or not you did anything.  Now let's come back to the present where a 16 year old virgin is rare, let alone a 19 year old one.  I am a firm believer that sex should be something between two people who intend to spend the rest of their lives together.  This has no correlation to any religious beliefs, just my own opinion from my own experiences.  My mom was in the army when she met my father.  They dated and then she found out she was pregnant.  At around the same time, the army assigned my father up to North Carolina, and my mother to Texas.  He was obviously given a choice to either leave the army and take care of me and my mom, but he chose to leave and never even attempt to make contact with us.  I have lived my entire life with out knowing my father and it sucks.

Pregnancy can happen even if you use a condom or birth control.  The only way to ensure that you don't get pregnant is to not have sex in the first place.  It's not fair to the children of these unwanted pregnancies that even though they made no mistakes, they are sent to orphanages or have to grow up with out a father.  Personally, I always feel slightly ashamed when I admit that I don't know my father.  I get the sad look that says "oh you poor dear, you've missed so much." and I know I have.

Sex used to mean "I love you," now it means "I'm horny and you're there."  When I give it up, it will be because I love the man I'm with and if I do get pregnant, I know that my child will at least know his/her father.  And that's really important to me.

Why Do People Watch Jersey Shore?

Jersey Shore is basically a show about a group of people who work at a little T-shirt shop, live together, go out and party every night, and just do stupid things.  So why watch it?  What's the point?  I have watched a few episodes and frankly, I was not impressed.  Some people say that the like it because the people are so stupid and it's funny.  I don't find it funny; in fact, I find it sad that these people are getting paid a TON of money just to be on TV and act like complete idiots.  There isn't even really a plot, or a reason for this show.  You pretty much just watch stupid people do stupid stuff.  I mean at least Big Brother has a prize at the end and people leave the show every week.  In Jersey Shore, nobody ever leaves the show, nobody will win anything at the end of the season, it's just a group of people going out and partying or doing some other activity.  And who were these people before Jersey Shore?  Were they famous before this, thus explaining why on Earth I should give a darn about them?  I don't think they were.  So where did they come from?  Why them?  Were they the dumbest people up for the cast list?  I can't answer that, but I know that Jersey Shore should definitely go off the air for good, or our country really will end up as it did in the movie Idiocracy, a movie where Luke Wilson, an average guy, gets frozen for an experiment, forgotten about, then wakes up in the future to a world where he is now the smartest man on the planet because everyone else has gotten extremely stupid.  All I can do is hope, that that is not where we are headed as a society.

Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero

You would think from the title "Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero" that this article would be about... well why the music industry hates Guitar Hero.  Well you would be dead wrong.  This article doesn't even mention what the title suggests the subject will be!  Instead Mr. Jeff Howe talks about what the music industry is doing to stop Guitar Hero and how the music industry would benefit from going into business with the game.  Although Mr. Howe does fill his article with very well chosen words, I must say I did not think this article was a good one.  For one, no matter how good his word choice, the article was just plain boring.  After the first paragraph, I found myself barely even reading the darn thing!  Instead I found myself kind of moving my eyes over the text without really even trying to see what he was writing.  I actually had to go back and force myself to take in the words and make them register in my mind rather than have my mind pretend to read something for English class.  I found out why my mind didn't really read Mr. Howe's article.  It all just kind of runs together.  It's like he's say the same thing in different words in a different order in each paragraph!  He keeps repeating that the music industry would get more money from pairing up with Guitar Hero.  He says it several times.  Yeah, Jeff, I got it.  They'll make more money.  Please stop telling me that.  I have a longer memory span than a goldfish, thank you.  I think if Mr. Howe just stated some more facts, instead of reusing the ones he found in Google, that the article would be much more interesting.

On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You

“Don’t friend me!  I mean it.”  That first sentence of the article alone grabs your attention.  Why don’t you want me to friend you?  So, you start to read the article, in an effort to find out why Jacquielynn Floyd doesn’t want to be friends with you on Facebook and instead you are force-fed a very dull and repetitive article on how posting things like “I just went to the bathroom” might lead to you putting information about yourself that you don’t want others to know.  In the article of course, she doesn’t tell you WHAT exactly you might say that shouldn’t be said, she just gives a very vague idea that you might give more information about yourself than needed.  The article is also lacking any form of support.  No stories about embarrassed people on face book, or someone who had had their identity stolen because of information they put on Facebook.  This lack of evidence leads me to believe that I am in no real danger of sharing too much personal information on Facebook as long as I don’t put my credit card number, social security number, or my mom’s maiden name in any of my ramblings on the site.  Jacquielynn also warns her readers to watch who you friend on Facebook.  Still she lacks any support for her idea of the fact that the person I “haven’t seen in twenty years” and “didn’t really talk to in the first place” is going to try to steal my identity or embarrass me in some way.  Frankly, I felt like I was reading the same paragraph over and over again, it was just worded differently, every version warning me to be careful what I post on Facebook.  Well I have news for Jacquielynn.  I will not post things I don’t want other people to know on Facebook.  Know why?  I am not a complete idiot, that’s why.

Response to "A Little Civility, Please"

Reading “A Little Civility, Please” by Mark Davis, really got me thinking about freedom of speech in high school.  Although, this article is mainly about freedom of speech on teenagers’ T-shirts, you have to think about how much freedom is being taken away from high schoolers.  You can’t talk about certain subjects in the halls (e.g. drugs, alcohol, sex, etc.), you can’t say certain words, heck, you can’t even give your significant other a peck on the cheek without getting in trouble.  So, why would you be able to wear a T-shirt saying “homosexuals are possessed by demons?”  Short answer, you shouldn’t be able to wear something like that to a high school.  It’s offensive to a lot of people, not just homosexuals.  However, what if you wear the T-shirt just to “spark a debate,” and don’t intend to offend anyone?  Well let’s look at it this way, if you saw a T-shirt like that, would you go up to the wearer and start a discussion about why he or she is wrong, or would you give the wearer a dirty look and think to yourself how horrible and ignorant he or she is?  You would probably choose the second option.


This article said pretty much the same thing, just longer and with different words and examples.  It was a very well written article, and the author made it interesting to read.  I had only intended to read a few paragraphs to see if it would be a good article to blog about, but I ended up reading the whole thing before I even thought to stop.  Mark’s points were very valid and well supported, but he didn’t present the other side, the side of the teenager wearing the T-shirt.  There may actually be some teens who would wear a controversial shirt to spark debate, but will never get the chance because of how offensive it would be to his or her peers.  Others may argue that there is no other side to the issue, people who wear stuff like that are ignorant and should not be allowed to wear a shirt like that.  So maybe he did cover all the bases.