Allison's Blog

After reading some of the articles from chapter 10 this week, it left me with an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach.  It reminds me of what kind of world we live in; a sick and disgusting one.  I don’t think many people realize how much violence occurs in the world against women.  After I read a story about the young Thai girl named Siri, it just really got to me.  A girl being so young having to experience being sold into the sex slavery business and being foced to have sex with strange disgusting men.  What kind of man would ever want to have sex with a little girl, I mean thats someone who could be your daughter.  Not only that, the brothels clients were mostly men who were politicians.  I think that even disgusted me more.  The people who run the government being involved with buying sex with a little girl.  Even the police of the city where the brothel was located were paid a percentage of the brothel’s income, so whenever a girl would try to escape and they were caught by the police, they were returned.  How alone must these girls feel when they live in a world like that; one where there seems to be no escape?  These girls even suffer from being emotionally broken down into believing that they deserve to be there.  That these girls must have done something so wrong in another life to be born a female.  That just disgusts me.  No woman should ever have to experience what girls like Siri have gone through, especially someone as young as her.

The other day, I went to my hair salon with my mom for a haircut appointment she had made us.  While we were sitting in the waiting area, another mother and daughter came in.  They had just made an apointment for the daughter to get her hair cut for a pageant that she will be in coming up (Miss Teen USA or whatever).  The daughter looked about 16, thin, blonde, and short.  The daughter also obviously let all the attention about her being “beautiful,” “pretty,” and “gorgeous” get to her head, you could just tell by the way she talked and carried herself that she just kind of had that “I’m so much more superior than you” type of attitude.  The mother kept going on and on how her daughter ws runner up the previous year, and saying that hopefully this year is hers. 

I just really dispise beauty pageants.  I think they have to be the worst idea anybody has ever came up with.  1) I don’t think its right to judge women on their beauty, 2) I think it is the dumbest way to get a scholarship on earth, I mean why would you give someone a scholarship for being what society deems “beautiful” and not for being smart? 3) I also don’ t think it is good to keep telling women (especially young ones) that they are beautiful all the time because then thats all they learn to value.  Also, not to mention that in the interviewing part of pageants, most put up a front that they have smarts over what is asked (they fake being smart).  Why in the world would anyone want to give a person money, FREE money to go to school for being beautiful?  That money could be put to better use by going to someone who is in reality actually smart, but doesn’t have the money to go.