So I haven't write in almost a century. I don't even think that I know how to write a blog post any longer but I do have to express this one thing that's bothering me.
Since I don't work and, therefor, have absolutely nothing better to do with this ocean of spare time that lies in front of me I always look for ways to at least fill my ears since my eyes and hands are usually busy with drawing.
The best way to fill the silence is SIT COM-es. Lame, I know, but more serious shows need a higher lever of attention. But with sit com-es it's easy, you listen to whatever the characters are mumbling about, you give a smile at the cheese jokes and a good hart laugh when one of the main characters gets a major "BUUUUUURN!".
And this is how I burned thru the most popular ones like "Friends", "Two and a half men", "That 70's show","Scrubs" or "How I met your mother" and oldies like "M*A*S*H" and very oldies like "The Honeymooners". Since all the good ones were done with I started watching some of the new ones "2 broke girls" which is decent and let me tell you, Kat Dennings's place is not in either a Brooklyn diner nor a cheep ass TV show or "New Girl" where Zooey Deschanel creeps me out every week (no girl in her right mind is that perky and optimistic).
The sad truth smacked me in the face after I watched some episodes from one sitcom called "Awkward". I was a socially awkward kid, I still am an awkward more or less grown up so the title kind of spoke up to me. I thought it's going to be something like 10 things I hate about you (missing you still Heath) but it's not. It's about a high school girl that like a boy and so he can like her back she's agreeing to sleeping with him, she was fifteen and I can't highlight this enough FIFTEEN AS IN 15.
My parents didn't set boundaries form this point of view, probably because they trusted me that I'll do it when I was good and ready, probably because they felt too awkward to talk to me about this stuff. (tend to go for the second option).
I'm not a prude, I'm not a virgin Marry and most of all I'll never be the kind of mother that forbids her child to do what teenagers need to do.
I had the misfortune of being the first one in my class to grow boobs and my God I remember a time when I was fourteen and a classmate smacked my ass, not in a "joke" sort of way but in a "horny teenager" sort of way. I remember how violated I felt, how embarrassed and maybe a little bit betrayed by nature.
Now, I realize that, that one guy was a jackass and my boyfriend was allowed to hold me close, and kiss me (even though he was a horny teenager to) but I remember blushing only at the thought of that* happening.
Staying on the subject but leaving the TV show aside for a second I want to say that I was shocked last autumn when I saw videos form the first day of high school. The girls were wearing huge heels and low cut tank-tops, short skirts. "It's still summer" they said. "Why should we wear uniforms?" they asked sarcastically.
It's true, the "do what we tell you to do and wear what we tell you to wear" was always rejected by the youth but every generation and every decade had something to rage against, something to fight for by refusing the dress code or making a music that would speak up for what they'd believed in and if the 60's and the 70's were influenced mainly by the flower power (hippie) culture that appeared in America as a result of the Vietnam war escalating and Lyndon B. Johnson recruiting more and more young men for the "fight against communism".
The 80's were all about freedom of expression thru art thru music, the rebels took control and got birth to an epic decade that anyone would be lucky to have spent their teenage years in. Also, the Cold War had finally ended, event celebrated so majestically in the song "Wind of change" by the Scorpions released all the way in 1991.
The 90's were about evolving and even though it has it's roots in the 1910's , the big blast of FEMINISM took place in the 90's and the youth had one more strike for society.
The 2000's were about the growing up. All those punk-heads from back in the 80's cut their hair short and showed the people that they can do something constructive as well. Science, technology, medicine, robotics, every field had some sort of breakthrough while the 2000's kids got hooked up on social media and so, in a blink of an eye the 2010's came along and this is where we, as a society, start stepping back. The kids got locked up behind computer screens, voiced over cartoons and headphones, creating and living inside an artificial world, seeing the green of leafs only in pixels. Smothered by overprotective parents, trying to create their own battle with society the youth raged against the one thing that remained standing - the childhood.
In ten short years we managed to bring the future generation into a new medieval era, where teenagers are proud to be married and parents at the age of 16 and by doing so THEY managed to kill creativity, art and music.
Great work new generation, everything is just...... dandy!!!!
