He's Just Not That Into You... garbage.

After a hard long day of tutoring, changing outfits four times, dinner with my dad and then an awfully long presentation on a book about Mexican deportation during the Great Depression, Jessie and I decided to make it a movie night, nachos included.

We decided to watch "He's Just Not That Into You" with the rationalization that we can never get enough of Justin Long and Bradley Cooper. We were all set, the movie was in and the first scene comes on. And it's of a little girl who gets pushed and called names by a little boy. She runs over to her mom and tells her what happened and her mom justifies the little boy's actions by saying "he only did that because he likes you."

Who the hell really thought up that crazy bull. I would really like to meet this person and kick them a couple hundred times and then maybe push them over a cliff. Like seriously. Why do we tell kids that kind of crap? It just makes life even more got damn difficult than it already is. Now you throw in a freaking mind buster game of why boys treat you like a piece of shit to say that they do that because they LIKE you!!

I totally get the point that little kids physically and emotionally do not know how to flirt like a teenager or adult might, so they physically hurt the person they "like." I have taken enough children's psychology classes to know that this is, well, normal behaviors. But to even bring in the topic of emotions with little kids is beyond me. Why even bring it up if they can't handle it anyways.

Why did that little boy just push you and call you a mean name? Because that's just what little boys do. It's as simple as that. No harm, no foul. Why do we have to tell little girls (and boys) that it's because of emotions they can't control or understand yet. There's no reason for it. None at all.

Telling girls that boys push and call them names because they like them when they are little leads to even more crazy complications when they are older. Every guy who is a jerk to her she will think is totally into her, which is brought out very nicely by the character Gigi in the movie. She thinks that every guy that gives her the slightest attention has a spark with her, and she obsesses over him, even though she will never hear from him again.

I just don't get why we make little kids believe this crap, because we all know its really not true... The guys that are being a total douche bag to you isn't trying to get you to like them back, they're trying to get you on your back. Girls don't intentionally want to be slutty, but it's guys like these girls fall for that turn them slutty. Dudes. Stop being such douche bags all the time, you don't want a slutty girl... honestly.

Alright. Rant over.

peas.