The (NOT SO) Skinny Girl

I didn't used to be proud to say I was a Girl Scout- not while I was in middle or high school, at least. When you were in kindergarten, everyone joined up, did it until maybe 3rd grade. Then you started weeding out the sports people because practice and games got in the way. . . because sports earn big scholarships. Mind you, I was able to do Girl Scouts AND play sports, but that's just me. I missed a year somewhere, I want to say 8th grade when I went to a different school? So I fell behind in my scouting. But I joined back up in high school in the hopes of earning an award. I succeeded in earning a Silver Award, the second highest honor the Girl scouts had. I was unable to cram 2 years worth of work into one senior year of high school, so I opted not to go for the Gold Award. However, the Silver Award padded my college applications well enough. While in college, I worked for the local Girl Scout Council at a summer camp as a counselor, making a difference in young girl...

I'm online shopping right now, and I know that it's a normal thing to see a few outrageous designs or fashion choices. But today, all of a sudden, I realize one of my favorite stores is subliminally messaging me through fashion, through clothing. Clothing- which is a necessity to humans, that necessity- has now become the platform for political statements. I can't help but roll my eyes and say "Nope, would never buy that" or "who buys this stupid shit?" or "REALLY?". Like, why are clothing stores making a political agenda into "fashion"? The stuff isn't even that fashionable, but then again some dimwit (Connie Briton) at some "Hollywood Night Out" event wore a 'Poverty is Sexist' sweater that cost $380... totally nailed her point. The sad part is, some of this politically charged 'fashion' is very divisive. It's lifting up one to put down another. Let me show you some of the dumb shit. I choose t...

Honestly, I get so much 'feels' from internet trolls. They really feed this blog. Here we go: Actress Jessica Chastain has a few thoughts on how the world creates harmful boundaries for young women (via Channel 4 News). "Society trains women to be quiet and grateful, and we need to push away from that brainwashing. In our society, women are raised to think they can't be politicians, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, filmmakers. We are born as little girls thinking we can do whatever we want and society teaches us and shows us otherwise by eliminating examples of women in the media." "It was shocking to me that after the first debate... people were critiquing Hillary Clinton saying she was overprepared for the debate. Men have never been called over prepared. I would like the leader of the nation to be over prepared for the job... I think it really dives into how confronting it is for some people to see a woman who is over prepared- let's just say prepared ...