Dating Older Guys

I know that a lot of girls think it’s cool to date guys who are older than them, but there are always limits; I’m going to tell you what those limits are. Here’s limit number one: If he is talking about commitment when you’re not even in collage yet, he’s too old. Number two: If he is so much older than you that you sneak out to be together, he’s still too old. Number three is probably the most important: If he feels ready to have sex, he is defiantly too old.
I know that lots of girls think they can handle dating older guys but the truth is that many of them aren’t. They want to feel more mature but they can be downgraded by an older guy’s expectation. Another thing is that a lot of older guys will just use young girls for sex and for a sense of control. Here are places a guy will look to manipulate you: Work, Coffee Shops, and at stores. If you work with an older guy who says he likes you and to prove it he stalks you here’s what you do: tell your parents and your boss. If it’s any other situation you should still always tell your parents, they’ll help you more than anyone else. Remember, a year or two age difference is all that major unless he is in collage and your in high school, but never date anybody who could be mistaken for your father, because that’s just weird.

Girl's Dreams

A lot of girls look into a mirror and tell themselves that they will never reach their goal, and I’m here to say that all goals and dreams can be reached if you try. Many female celebrities are born famous, but many others had to try unbelievably hard to achieve their dreams. Take Cleopatra for instance, a young women who had to fight her own brother to win back her country.
Many of female winners of American Idol had to may have a popular parent but they had to bear the harsh judge’s comments. Jordin Sparks has a famous football player for a father but had to put up with a judge not liking how curvy she is. Plus, all the girls who auditioned for that show had to sing on national television, I don’t know about you but I think that would really hard.
Many women in the military had to get past the hard training, the sexist men, and leaving their families. I think women like Cleopatra and Jordin show us that in the past and present, women have been strong and have always followed their dreams.

Girl's Education

I’m reading a book called Three Cups of Tea, written by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson and it is about Greg Mortenson. Greg built schools across the most remote regions of Pakistan and his schools let girls get an education. In the book he shows that in the Middle East lots of people think women should not be educated even though it says that they should in the Koran. While on a plane Greg sees a group of teenage Islamic girls dressed in their best clothes being herded around by men, those girls where sold to men to be prostitutes. Uneducated girls that were very beautiful were sold from their families and taken across the Middle East to have sex for money and then give the money to their masters. If the girls tried to run away, keep some of the money, or refused to have sex their punishments were either to be beaten or killed, even though lots of the girls died from severe beatings. Lots of these girls will or now have sexually transmitted diseases or have died from the man beating them during the sex. I think that all American girls who have or are getting their education should be thankful for their education and be sorry for the girls who where victims of this because they have no education.

Tobacco

Here is a horrible method of weight loss, what is it? It’s tobacco. Tobacco is a drug known far and wide, you’re probably asking yourself why girls would use tobacco and the answer can be plain and simple, weight loss. There is an ingredient in tobacco (that I do not know the name of) that can make you lose weight but there can be some deadly costs.
Those costs are, your appearance will be altered with things like hair loss, yellow fingernails, and wrinkly skin and your lungs will be filled with tar which makes almost impossible to breath, cancer, or emphysema, even death. If any of things happen to you, you’ll have pretty much have no chance of changing them back. Tobacco increases your chance of cancer in many places such as breasts, lungs, mouth, tongue, and in the bones. Cancer has no cure yet so if you get it you have to start treatment to slow the process if you can go 5 years without cancer cells showing up in your bloodstream you are considered cancer free. So the next you are in the grocery store or in a gas station and you walk by the cigarettes or chew remember that tobacco is a killer and you want to live to see 2009!

Crash Dieting

Do you know what always used to be talked about until pregnant stars stole the spotlight? Crash dieting. Crash dieting is driving teenage to starve themselves to lose weight.
Sometimes young girls think that a diet where you eat nothing, or very little, is fine because they just want the bodies some celebrities have. Then they end up in the hospital getting food from a tube, and they wonder why they lost so much weight and still look nothing like the pictures of stars. Here is the reason why; it’s called airbrushing.
Airbrushing is the tampering of people’s pictures so that a person looks taller and skinnier than they really are. The media is responsible for this and sometimes I wonder if the people who work for big-time magazines that airbrush the pictures realize the could be responsible for the next teenage girl that ends up in the ER. So next time you look at a magazine and see a picture of a beautiful celeb on the cover and you start to wish that you looked exactly like her, remember that we are all different and that you are beautiful just the way you are.

Teenage Pregnancy

The August 2008 edition of the magazine Cosmogirl has an article called “Pregnant on Purpose” written by Nancy Redd, and it has made me very worried. It says that 80% of teenage mothers are single parents and that only 1.5% of teen moms earn their college degree before they turn 30 years old.
But why are so many teen girls getting pregnant before they’re ready to support their babies? The answer could be very simple, Hollywood. More and more people are starting to think that teenage girls are copying what their favorite celebrities are doing, like getting pregnant at a very young age, such as Jamie Lynn Spears. They think acting like their favorite celebrities makes them cooler, but it is most likely ruining the chance to live the life and had all planned out for themselves.
But there could be another reason that girls are going out and becoming early mothers, boys. Some girls could be getting pregnant with their boyfriend so that he won’t dump them; it’s pretty much trying to hold the guy against his own will and that doesn’t always work. Sometimes the guy will get so scared that he will walk out or maybe he will propose and then you learn he’s not your type but since he’s the dad you feel forced to marry him.
I feel that some celebrities are trying to seem cool by having lots of kids, but the sad thing is I don’t think they know how much pressure the media is putting on girls. I think the media is glamorizing pregnancies so much that now girls need to get a reality check and realize that they aren’t millionaires with lots of nannies and designer maternity clothes and figure out the easy way like asking a parent that child birth is really hard. I think we should stop getting completely absorbed in stars’ lives because even though they make it seem so glamorous, usually it isn’t that way for us.

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