Today at Sisterhood, we talked about the metaphor a Sister came up with for popularity. Popularity is climbing a mountain made of ice. Many, if not all, of the Sisters agreed with this metaphor and expanded on it in detail. A few comments were:
* The higher you get, the more dangerous it is up there.
* Not much room at the top, and once you get there, someone might push you off.
* The further you fall, the more hurt you'll be.
* To climb it, you are risking a lot.
* There are many ways up...and down.
* There are ice picks that can help you, like the 'right' clothes, billions of friends, etc.
* Choose your own mountain to climb.
* CREATE your own mountain!
These last two comments are what The Sisterhood is all about: being yourself and creating your own happiness! Please leave a comment if you'd like to expand further on this popularity metaphor. And by popularity, we mean the kind of popular that is exploitative and competitive. The kind that tears someone else down in order to elevate your own status. The kind that uses power to influence, shun, reject, condemn, and judge. There is a GOOD kind of popular: the kind of person who is nice to everyone and therefore, is liked. This kind of popular is GREAT! But that's not the kind we're talking about here: the Mean Girl Popular.
And speaking of Mean Girls, why are people treated differently, based solely on 'popularity?' Has this ever happened to you? Or, be honest, have you ever been guilty of this? Please share and remember, all comments are ANONYMOUS!
Why are girls so mean to each other?
I read a quote by Naomi Shihab Nye at the end of Sisterhood today. Here it is:
"From over on the next tree, voices are calling to us--from the next orchard even! How are our branches different and our stories similar? And what lovely, larger life becomes ours when we listen to one another...? Together, from our apples, we grow."
That's Sisterhood.
7 comments:
Did you watch us on TV? Pretty funky, huh?
Anyway, I think girls are so mean to each other because we are jealous. We have to point out that somebody made a mistake. Why can't we just admit that we are ALL not perfect?
Watched us, yeah. SO glad I wasn't on:)
It was okay, I think, but I think that instead of interviewing people who had never come before about some wierd football thing, they should have gotten more of the conversation and interviewed Ms Elliot.
Is it just me, or does PLMS get all the attention/fame? I mean, it's not like we deserve it: we were in the right place at the right time!
I think that we're so mean--at least this is for me--as a self-defense mechanism. If we're mean, will others leave us alone? As in not be mean to us? Jealously would be a part of this: if we're jealous, and act like we're better so no one will point out our flaws, maybe we won't either: maybe we'll convince ourselves that we really are happy w/who we are?
We all want to get to the top, but if you do get there, you might loose all of your friends at the bottom. When you're "Popular" doesn't mean that you are the boss of the school. You can be popular in many ways: Have many friends and liked the way you are. Or be mean and boss people around.
Everyone is popular, just in different ways. So you get to choose wich side you're on.
no one should feel unaccepted
We can change the meaness in our school. It starts from the all the little people doing nice things to each other. As Obama says, change starts from the bottom-up, not from the top. In other words,going over and talking to a mean girl isn't as affective as loads of girls being nice themselves.
i love the sisterhood with 7th graders in it so they can tell us 6th graders about it.
The mountain of ice concept is very true. But the real thing most people are scared about is to fall and lose what they already had. Why should you be so stressed out and lose your whole social life when you could rather be happy with what you have, I am not saying that you shouldn't try more to get more friends. I just don't think being popular is what it is all really cracked up to be.
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