Shelly's Blog: 2011

Saturday, November 5, 2011

The winner?

Mr. Morris opened the door. “David, I need to see you after class.” The class had fallen silent. I had been teaching for half an hour and they hadn’t listened. Their own conversations were more important than what would be on their Chemistry exam Friday.

I went off the lesson plan. In fact, I just went off. “I want you all to think about what just happened. Since you walked in the room you have not ceased talking, but as soon as a man spoke you all got quiet. Girls, I especially want you to think about what this means. Why will you listen to a man but you won’t listen to me? Why were his words more important than mine? Girls, you may not think about it now, but someday it will be you getting overlooked for the promotion or left out of the discussion because you are a woman. You can be the ones to change this by showing respect t to women today!”

As the students left class, David told the girl next to him about the argument he had with his girlfriend.

“Yeah, girls are just all drama.” she said.

I could have strangled her.

This is an entry for the Mookychick blogging competition, FEMINIST FLASH FICTION 2011. Enter now.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Photoblog

Hey! I have a photoblog! Maybe I'll do a better job keeping up that one than this one :( I can't wait to graduate so I can have more time for stuff like this!!!

http://www.photoblog.com/smac77/

Friday, April 8, 2011

progress...

Today I finished reading Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu, and I got IRB approval to conduct research at my research site. That's progress, right? So I won't quit school after all. Not today anyway.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

What are you?

Sunday, March 20, 2011

This does not annoy me.

I love being a desperate believer.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Another thing that annoys me (I am easily annoyed when I am sick, which I have been this whole week!)

People who say things like "I don't have time to be sick" annoy me. Come on. Is that a stupid saying or what? I never hear those same people saying "I've got time next week to schedule in a good bout of diarrhea" or "I've got some time on my hands, I think I'd like to have and earache." No one has time to be sick, whether they are busy or not. In my experience, most people have time to do the things they want to do, even if it's at the expense of the things they should do (-their responsibilities, especially to others).

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Another thing that annoys me

Why do people stop you from sneezing? Our bodies sneeze for a reason- because there is something in there irritating our breathing and it needs to get out! Why would anyone want to stop that? What kind of joy does it cause them? Would they be just as happy to hold their hands over your mouth to keep you form vomiting? Sneezing releases pressure in your sinuses. Don't say things like "Sneeze now!" or make whoops or hooping sounds when a person is trying to sneeze. Especially not if that person is me and I have a cold. Don't be annoying.

Things that annoy me

It really annoys me when people say "I don't wanna be 'that girl". But they always say it like this: I don't wanna be THAT girl. The intonation alone is enough to make my eyebrows come together, but the implication is that there is someone in the cliche world of women whom everyone despises because of some annoying or gauche attribute, and the speaker is certainly better than said 'girl', but must make the disclaimer that they are not that girl because they are currently doing something that 'that girl' would do. Obviously at that moment, they are that girl. Claiming one thing in words does not negate the action that has just been performed. I hate cliches in general, but this is one we need to eliminate from the English lexicon. It makes it words that in some way there is a sexist rant that accompanies it, that somehow we all know what an annoying girl is like. Blech.