Normal
What is your definition of normal?
Is it for me, a white female teen, to be discriminated and have fixed thoughts about what I'm supposed to do, who I'm suppose to be, who I'm suppose to marry, etc. If I disobey the societal restrictions, I don't merely get a slap on the wrist, no words of "girls will be girls" will be said. I would have my name dragged through the mud behind my body as I get called names, earn titles, and am verbally abused. I can't talk to multiple guys unless I want the titles of "slut" and "whore" plastered on my forehead, but merely if guys do this, they are rewarded with laughter and the hurtful acceptance of it as normal. Is it for me to be told I must stay home, raise a family, as my husband can be out working or sleeping with his secretary, then it being blamed on me? Or when a guy is physically assaulting me by pulling my hair or throwing things at me, or verbally abusing me by talking degrading as if I was a possession? No? Then why is it? Why do we allow your sons to control society by marking the lines that women cannot pass and create the lines that only they can cross? Why do we allow them to abuse their positions with power by preying on girls under them and then threaten them. Why is it that girls being followed or stocked, don't get the protection they need from the police after it was reported? Why is it normal for your son to be allowed to grope me in the hallways within the same walls I am trying to earn my education in? Why do men dictate what I can and cannot wear? Why are my shoulder blades and collarbone sexualized? They're part of the human anatomy. "Boys cannot concentrate when they can see your bra straps" I'm a female who gets very uncomfortable by the boobs God gave me, and with so many layers I have to wear to accommodate the males, get overheated. Who cares if you can see straps? There are guys walking around shirtless and their pants hanging down their butts, but so help everyone who sees a piece of fabric that are containing my boobs from going everywhere.
Then there is the matter of social media. Do boys not realize their words peirce the very fabric that creates me? Them building up girls on wake love and "heartfelt" words of admiring to be crushed with the childish need for sexual entertainment and the craving wolf inside the male mild. The want for "fun" and "a good time" streaked across the once innocent girl who thought you were her friend and could trust you before you screenshotted her, sent it to all your friends, and stamped "Easy" across her name. Then comes the blackmail to continue providing exactly what you sent even when she's had enough. Her eyes filled with tears, phone full of hateful comments "you should kill yourself" "you're so easy" "you'd try to sleep with any guy who talks to you" and so on. Her mind only wonders to the sense of suicide; pills, cutting, hanging, etc. Her arms are filled with cries for a savior as her system becomes over filled with toxins that they began to shut down. Teen suicide is the top leading death of teens since 2014, followed by accidents. Thousands of teens die yearly, all because of what? The norms of society crushing the flower of souls under its heel? And what do we do? "Bullying is bad. Report it" the basic announcement of the already common sense, but is so poorly handled, does it really matter if you report it?
We fabricate the need to apply heavy makeup, clear skin, small waist, big butt, and big boobs as the "what the guys want" look. Us females have gone to the point of want of these earn us the badge of eating disorders, skin conditions, laziness, and no money. Girls are getting boob jobs to have "the desirable size" that men want us to have. They dictate the color of your hair and the length so that it fits their "type".
Why is this our definition of normal?
