![ON BEING 12 YEARS OLD
Me and my friend made a zine we called Feminist Philosophies, we wrote things like “Men should be castrated at birth,” and “why do you care what guys think? They don’t care what you think.” But we never got around to printing it.
We stopped shaving our armpits, it was our badge of pride of how enlightened we were.
When we saw other kids kissing and holding hands we’d always say, “Teenage romance MAKES ME SICK!” every single time.
My friend dyed her hair purple and got her nose pierced, I dyed mine with henna and wore army boots every day.
It was great, it was this world completely full of our egos and other peoples egos, nothing mattered except what we thought about things. You could sit for hours categorically listing what you thought were MAINSTREAM (dyed blonde hair, skate shoes, Britney Spears) what was cool (smoking cigarettes, not shaving {but only if you’re making a statement}, Madonna].
I wasn’t so fussed on Madonna but my friend thought she invented feminism. She’d refer to people as being ‘pre-madonna’ but pronounce it primadonna to refer to people who weren’t hip enough to understand or appreciate genuine displays of rebelliousness as a human right.
I didn’t think anyone in the whole school was as cool as us.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lysd67lbYL1rnjddlo1_250.jpg)
ON BEING 12 YEARS OLD
Me and my friend made a zine we called Feminist Philosophies, we wrote things like “Men should be castrated at birth,” and “why do you care what guys think? They don’t care what you think.” But we never got around to printing it.
We stopped shaving our armpits, it was our badge of pride of how enlightened we were.
When we saw other kids kissing and holding hands we’d always say, “Teenage romance MAKES ME SICK!” every single time.
My friend dyed her hair purple and got her nose pierced, I dyed mine with henna and wore army boots every day.
It was great, it was this world completely full of our egos and other peoples egos, nothing mattered except what we thought about things. You could sit for hours categorically listing what you thought were MAINSTREAM (dyed blonde hair, skate shoes, Britney Spears) what was cool (smoking cigarettes, not shaving {but only if you’re making a statement}, Madonna].
I wasn’t so fussed on Madonna but my friend thought she invented feminism. She’d refer to people as being ‘pre-madonna’ but pronounce it primadonna to refer to people who weren’t hip enough to understand or appreciate genuine displays of rebelliousness as a human right.
I didn’t think anyone in the whole school was as cool as us.
