Catcalls

All the women and teenager girls I know have been harassed by men and other women, pretty much their whole lives, I'm talking about catcalls, whistles, comments on facebook, or in the hallway of your school, the list can go on and on. All our lives, especially our teen years we're expected to just deal with the fact that EVERYONE feels the need to point out the positive or the negative about our bodies, and do men realize even the so called positive comments are quite offensive and rude?

   When both boys and girls go through puberty they obviously both deal with insecurities about their bodies, but guys don't have to deal with the constant judging that girls are objectified to. Why is it that as soon as we go through puberty we're automatically assumed to be asking every ones opinion on our figure, since when have we cared about your goddamn opinion on the way we look?? Do guys understand how self-conscious it makes girls feel when their constantly being judged and talked about just because of the way they look?

The obsession with looks needs to stop, all these tv shows, movies, magazines, etc are telling girls what we need to do to become attractive to the opposite sex, but maybe just maybe we choose to dress up, wear make up, or whatever else because it makes us feel good, not because we want men to think we're pretty.

-Riel