R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

16 Sep 2010 1 Comment

by nanat9887 in Political, Random Idealist

Now that I am an official commuter into the city, I take the LIRR to lessen the chances of killing people from traffic frustration. As some of you already know, I tend to be overly observant of my surroundings. So on the way home yesterday, two people we sitting behind me on  the train. Sounds normal right? At first, I thought that they were  just being obnoxious until I overheard the girl talking about that she had three one-night stands within a two week period. I am definitely not sitting here saying that I am a nun, but this girl obviously has no respect for her self or her body. I understand that it is 2010 here but, please stop being a slut.

She is obviously not the only one like this and it is sad I work with a bunch of hormonal teenagers and it is natural to want to have sex at that age but, it is evident by the amount of children that these young women have, that they are not being ‘smart’ about the situation. There are plenty of people who have sex before they are ready to, but why is this?

Of course we could use the standard excuse of being peer pressured, but it is more than that. A lot of women have very low self esteem primarily caused by bad breakups and such. Having low self esteem contributes to promiscuity in both men and women. But, of course the women get the bad reputation for it. I must lay some blame on the American media for this epidemic of unsafe, unhealthy sexual relationships. Television shows promote promiscuity, casual sexual relationships and the degrading of women. I am not saying for women to stand up and fucking burn our bras, but enough is enough. And, what happened to gentleman?? I am not old-fashioned(i’m only 25!) or anything but, why do so many men disrespect women. No one holds doors anymore, let alone call you by your name. It is like ‘hey ma,pssst,yo, mami’…none of those terms of endearment is flattering in the least. Sometimes I am walking somewhere and I see men blatantly yelling,screaming and cursing to their girlfriends/wifes. WTF is going on??  

At work the other day, I heard the most disturbing story. While I am not at liberty to reveal details, it involved careless sexual experiences that resulted in a pregnancy. I went home that night and literally cried to my fiance about the situation. Sometimes one feels so helpless in situations like this but, what will it take for teenage girls to realize that they deserve better than to be intimidated by a bunch of pubescent teenage boys.

Back to self respect….there are many people out there that do not respect themselves let alone anyone else, but it is women that concern me so much. Is it because I am a woman…um no  it is the simple fact that a lot, not all, but a lot of women do not care how many men that they sleep with, how many abortions that they have and how many STD’S that they have to go to the doctors for. It is the lack of common sense that irritates me so much. There are plenty of other things that are going on in our country that take precedence  over sluts and wayward women but, I need answers. So far I have not come up with any good ones. Is it attention, media, parenting, friends, men or a combination of all these factors that makes many women so irresponsible??

While Aretha Franklin puts R-E-S-P-E-C-T into much better terms  than I ever could, it is something which many young  Americans  do not understand the meaning of.

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