Teenagers and Writers block!

Hi,
Teenagers are mostly stereotyped as stroppy, hormonal and obsessed with their friends and who they are going out with. Obviously adults must forget what being a teenager is about pretty quickly because although this is partly true there is a lot more to it than that.
I have been a teenager for 3 years and it mostly sucks because of the mood swings and hormones and wanting to fit in. But I am also working out who I want to be. Everything I do will contribute to my personality so teenagers are all laying down the patterns for the rest of their lives. I want to spend the rest of my life doing interesting things like eating chocolate and watching Doctor Who but here are some things I think everyone should do while they are a teenager.

1.      Watch at least 5 episodes of Doctor Who (Preferably a series.)

2.      Learn to do cartwheels or handstands (If you don’t want to then do magic tricks.)

3.      Try at least 10 new hobbies before you are 16 because then you always have a backup if your career goes wrong.

4.      Get your own Pet.

5.      Write down 5 things you think people should do before they become, ‘Not a teenager’ and post them on the Internet.     

So if you havent done any one of these things yet then hurry up!

bye

P.S. Sorry this post isn't that good. I am having trouble with the subject that I will be writing about, so I may need to think about it a bit longer before I write a decent blogpost.

Feminism and single parents.

Hi,
Feminism is a word that some of people associate with crazy women who hate men or Margaret Thatcher. But that's not what feminism is about. Another misunderstanding is that feminism is no longer relevant today.
I will explain why feminism is still relevant.

First, Feminists are people who believe in equal rights for men and women, so anyone who says they think one sex is better, is not a feminist. Second Margaret Thatcher said "The battle for women’s rights has largely been won I owe nothing to women’s lib and I hate feminism It is poison."
 You get the idea.

Now my main point is that feminism is still relevant today. There is a new law that the government (Supposedly) want to bring in that prevents people on benefits including single parents from voting. I can't find anything from the UK on it but I have found an American article about it.

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/10165355.html

This article says "What about single parents? The concept doesn’t change. In this day and age, it’s usually the parent’s choices (exception: rape) that created the kid in the first place. If an individual’s marriage ends in divorce, that would be their choice as well. If this caused the need for government benefits, then through their choices they ended up being the ones not allowed to vote."


Well, first let me say that the majority of single parents are women and if you see a single man with children most people would assume he was widowed. So let’s go for a common story. A couple have children they are happy, then the father meets someone he wants to leave, his wife can't stop him, she is not happy about the divorce which is forcing her to stay at home and look after the kids instead of work, she goes on benefits, and her husband has his own life now and plenty of time to work. He can afford to vote, she can't because she is on benefits. Sexist!
There are loads of other feminist issues and feminism is definatly still relevant I am just giving you one example.
for more feminism: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9I30HBMwEKDWLi_3FNecTQ

Bye

The Ideal Body

The Ideal Body

I wanted to Show you a power point presentation, but i can't, so I'm doing this post the best i can without it. 

















All Lies

Quotes





•ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2007) — The rail-thin blonde bombshell on the cover of a magazine makes all women feel badly about their own bodies despite the size, shape, height or age of the viewers. A new University of Missouri-Columbia study found that all women were equally and negatively affected after viewing pictures of models in magazine ads for just three minutes.

•Unlimited options to "fix" every "problem," with knives, needles, or lasers—not to mention Photoshop—have created a standard of beauty (Bambi eyelashes! moonlike white teeth!) practically guaranteed to make you want to shatter your mirror.

•Disappointing: Survey Says...Women Are Prouder Of Boobs Than Brains 





















Feeling Bad

Quotes

•The current "airbrushing" culture leads to huge self-esteem problems – half of all 16- to 21-year-old women would consider cosmetic surgery and in the past 15 years eating disorders have doubled.

•We don't even know we hate our bodies because we take that for granted.

•We see around 5,000 photoshopped images a week.

•Is this the industry taking responsibility for our broken body image, for its power? Acknowledging that they help sell not only clothes, but ideas of which bodies are acceptable?









Feeling Good

Quotes

•When I know that beauty is subjective, that nothing terrible would happen if I put on weight, when my desk is covered in annotated research on bodies, do I still feel bad about the way I look? Because none of us lives in a vacuum," she said. Simply acknowledging the pressure doesn't eliminate it.

•Just because someone's not a size 10 it doesn't mean she's a bad person.

•On one hand they're saying 'love your body', then on the other 'fat's bad, the worst thing you could do is be obese. The message 'be healthy and do exercise' is a bit different from 'be happy in your skin', isn't it?

Positive

Basically be happy whatever size you are.

But its so easy to lie!



Thanks

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Passion for the World

Hi,
If someone told you that they didn't care about being eco friendly, what would you say? If someone said they didn't care if the 3rd world starved to death, then what would you do?
Yesterday I was faced with this problem, and I didn't do anything. (The person who didn’t care about being eco friendly is very stubborn and we have had lots of arguments about this before, she is hopeless.)
But why should she care?
Well the reality is that.... Global warming IS a problem. Starvation in the 3^rd world IS a problem.
And if I don’t care then who will?
So when people say they don't care, then I have to fight for what I believe in and care even more passionately to compensate. Peolple in the 3rd world can't do much on their own, and global warming won't save itself. That is why the world ALWAYS, ALWAYS!!! Needs more people who care!
Next time you don't know whether to donate to the 3rd world, or turn that extra light off. Then remember all the people who wouldn't even consider it, and compensate for them.
Bye

Followers And Future Careers!

Hi,
So I now have followers that arn't just my mum! (Yay) This means I will have to work harder to spell stuff right and write interesting posts. mum has had some facebook comment which are really nice so thanks for them I am over the moon!

Right well, I get asked alot; "What do you want to be when you grow up?" This question is really annoying because I don't know. But if you asked an adult "So what do you do?" they would say something like; "Oh, I work in a shop." or whatever, because when people say what do you do they mean what job do you do. So if you asked an adult what they did and they said "Oh, I draw cartoon strips. But I have to stop drawing, to work in a shop. Quite annoying acctualy." Then they would be talking about themselfs, because usualy peopls jobs don't say as much about them as their hobbies.
It's the same kind of thing when I am asked what I want to be I think "Well happy obviously." but I have to say "I dunno. An artist?" and then i sound like a loony. So what you are and what you do to live are different, and what you want to be and what you dicide you will do are very different things too.
The funniest thing is that most adults don't know what they want either.
So who and what do you want to be? And when you choose (or when you chose) your career, did you/ will you, choose what you want, or what you think you need?
What is more important for you? A regular income or a happy life?

I think I might be a film director, or an artist and whatever job I have i will just be happy!
Bye   
P.S. To comment you need to select thee post you want to comment on from the list of posts on the side, and at the bottom of the post you can comment easily! thanks. 

Pointless political blogging, and Change!!!

Hi,
So spring is coming at last (You never know we might actully get a summer this year too.) People are walking in the country more, getting sunburned and just genaraly enjoying the warm weather.
This is a pretty English way for me to start off. Jokey comments about how mutch it rains. genaral talking about the weather. Yea I am English, and you havent even hurd what I want to say yet.

So in England apparently another thing we do is; "Keep calm and carry on!" So for example, "Oh no It's raining; But don't worry, just put your coat on, and we will go to the open top swimming pool now, before it gets too bad. We are only gonna get wet anyway!" Or a more extreem example; "Oh no there is a madman in charge of the country, he is making us poor, and we are being evicted out onto the streets to die; But never mind, we were only gonna die one day anyway!" Ok so maby not that bad but you see what i'm getting at.

This country seems to think that sitting still and ignoring the problems are going to solve them. Everyone is finding some little way to cope, and pretend it's is only rain; 'Here one minute and then gone the next.' But this 'economic crisis' is not going away by itself. or at all if people don't do something cause the people in charge don't seem to know what they are doing. They are getting good advice from places like 'The london school of economics' which give expert advice to the government, and the government in turn, ignore them. So us 99% or Normal people (However you wnt to say it) are left with 3 choices: 1. Do as they say. 2. Protest and try to make thigs change. 3. Ignore it and hope it goes away. We chose 3.

So if you want to actully do something there are several options.
1. Organise a protest.
2. Get into olitics and help from the inside.
3. become a jurnalist and try to open people's eyes with great stories.
4. start a tv show (Spitting image type stuff) which will make people think.
5. write a pointles political blog and update it with rubbish political stuff, and then spell everything wrong. (Not like me at all then)

The moral of this story: Blogs are pointless and lets make some changes!
Bye

Views, and cynical thinking and possible conspiracy theories

Hi,
So.... Wow! today I went to update the blog and OMG! I have over a 100 more views in 1 week! Cool hu!
anyway today i will talk about Politics ang children.
Ok so if your parents follow a particular party then you are 71% likley to support the same one. Although you are 21% more likely to be more liberal than your parents and 7% more likley to be more coservative. according to  http://www.gallup.com/poll/14515/teens-stay-true-parents-political-perspectives.aspx    
So do you support the same parties, or have the same political views? I have similar views to my parents, but that might just be because I don't actually know that mutch about politics. The other day Dad said I should read a book on politics that he has. He said that he didn't want me to always have to say: "Yea thats what I think about politics! But I don't know for sure, thats just what my parents said." Dad wants me to have an opinion about politics whch is mine and not his. So how mutch do you really know about politics? Most people probably accept their parents opinion and vote for whatever party they are told to. In that case how do the end results - the parties in power - change with everyone voting whatever their parents did? Well, there are still well informed people, voting for what they think will help, instead of obediently following their parents. The Tory party are making alot of cuts to the education system many people won't know enough about politics to make an informed decision. Then they expect us to just vote what our parents did. if our parents didn't vote Tory then maybe they will eliminate the option to vote.
 http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/10165355.html

http://procapitalist.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/should-people-on-benefits-be-allowed-to-vote/

Maybe!

Or maybe they are just hoping that the great job they are doing running the country, will win our hearts at the next election.
Anyway whoever you choose to vote for, I hope they do good stuff Etc.
Bye!