Tag: Rants

  • Zoe’s Recent Rants

    There are 365 days in a year, multiply that by four, add one, and 1461 is the number of days I will be a legal, voting adult with Donald Trump as my president. That’s fine, because he legally won, thanks to the electoral college, but it’s not fair, because I didn’t vote. And it’s not that I chose not to vote because I think my vote doesn’t count. I didn’t vote because I couldn’t, because I turned 18 after November 8. But I turned 18 before January 20, so the entire 1461 days of Presidents Trump’s reign *cough* I mean presidency, I will be of voting age, and yet not have been allowed to voice my opinion. All citizens who will be of voting age on or before January 20 should be allowed to vote, especially since they will feel the impacts of the president just as much as those born two months earlier.

    Straight-Haired People, Shut Up!
    As a proud member of the curly-haired community, I can with little reserve say that if you have straight hair, you need to shut up. Not only is your hair ridiculously easy to deal with compared to my corkscrewed rats nest, it also conforms with the majority of images touted by fashion and beauty magazines of today, making you just that much closer to modern standards. I’m sorry you think your hair is boring, but at least you don’t have to douse it in conditioner in order to run a brush through it. Don’t get me wrong—I love my curly hair, but can the straight-haired people of this world please stop complaining?

    The Bowling Green Massacre
    It is embarrassing that an atrocity such as this has been ignored for so long, and no, I’m not talking about Kellyanne Conway. I’m talking about the terrible Bowling Green Massacre. How could the citizens of America go on with their normal lives without so much as recognizing that nothing is going on in Bowling Green, Kentucky? It’s not like nothing happens in Kentucky that often! I am asking for you to wake up, open your eyes, and look at the stunning number of dead bodies (zero), and say, “I will not stand for this! I will not idly stand by and let nobody be killed! This is America, damnit!”

     

    Don’t Discredit the Media
    Since I write for the school paper, I have plenty of opinions on newspapers and the media in general, and I am the first to say that media isn’t perfect. But now is not the time to turn against the media, because it is the counterweight, the last source of truth. By discrediting the media, the current government is manipulating the general population to believe that journalists are criminals who make up news. This is helpful because when an important story that is disagreeable to the government is aired, it will be easy to believe it is just another lie. Do not discredit the media; it is the media’s job to fact check, and if that bother’s you, deal with it.

  • Zoe’s Recent Rants

    Zoe’s Recent Rants

    Shootings

    On November 27, three people were killed and nine others wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. On the same day, two were killed and two wounded at a restaurant in Sacramento, CA. On December 2, a married couple killed 14 and wounded 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA. On the same day, one person was killed and three wounded in a shooting in Savannah, GA. Half of these were not even given attention in the news, which raises the question, Are we becoming numb to these shootings?

    Unless a shooting brings the death of a significant number of people, the media no longer cares, and shockingly, neither do the civilians of the United States. The US cannot become a country that sees shootings on the news as regularly as does a country in the midst of a civil war. But when there have been more mass shootings than calendar days in the year thus far, it is hard not to believe that is the path we are headed down.

    When the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) covered the San Bernardino shooting, reporter James Cook opened the newscast with the line, “Just another day in the United States.” The rest of the world can see it, so why can’t we? The citizens of the United States cannot become used to seeing shootings on the news every night; instead, they need to begin campaigning for gun restrictions to bring an end to this violence.

    El Salvador’s Abortion Policy

    Prior to 1998, there were three reasons Salvadorian women could legally abort a fetus: her life was endangered, the pregnancy was a product of rape, or a severe congenital disorder was detected in the fetus. However, since the Penal Code was passed in 1998, no woman, under any circumstances, can legally have an abortion.

    This has led to serious consequences. Many women are now forced to use dangerous methods including inserting metal rods to penetrate the uterus and using catheters to inject soapy water or battery acid, and often to perform these sketchy operations in their own homes.

    These techniques are often fatal or otherwise permanently injure the woman. And in situations when girls as young as ten are raped, they are now left with the decision to either have their child—which, when the mother is so young, frequently leads to death of the mother and/or the child—or attempt aborting her fetus.

    Another result of this law is that women who have miscarriages or stillbirths are being arrested for abortion when they did not abort their children. Punishing women for complications in their wanted births is adding salt to the wound, and is absolutely wrong.

    Even if you are pro-life, these stringent anti-abortion laws are anything but that. They put the lives of hundreds of women at stake and arrest women for miscarrying their child.