Vorpals said:
Jenny Creed: I know, but a little bit of some help is always good.
Matronadena: Tell me about, the social system is intensely fucked up, but the girls seem to have less of one than the guys.
I recall vaguely when I was younger what it was like...
I largely avoided the games, and trends, and groups...I wore my jinko jeans, with my thong straps over my hips, my boots nice and worn, a nice baby tee with somehting random on it like a kilted stick figure kicking a speaker over, or something like " shins are for kicking" or corset,, and my mala beads around my wrist...I would spend most of the day in the art rooms " even when ditching a class or two" even would go have coffee with the headmaster " as he assumed I had a free period...I just liked free coffee"
My " flock" as I called them were more or less ones to latched on and followed, some you could call losers, dorks, others were of the " I just don't give a shit" mentality, others were hard core punks, goth etc etc..
the way I looked at them...is they were good people, they were annoying, and great at the same time, good for a laugh or a good debate over something, hell even partook of several chances to do an RPG or two " as in the true RPG's requiering paper, dice, books etc" as video game wise you were using a genesis/snes then a sega saturn, or n64 at the high end of consoles and most people still used windows 3.1 and it was all about lucas arts point and clicks, flight sims, doom, or leisure suit Larry.
most other girls seemed to " at the time" follow this rule of a double life...not to mention having the mental and emotional stability of a building made of tin foil, based on a foundation of over stretched slinkys in a heavy earthquake and tempest region." where as once you were attached to a certain class/click/group that was your life in school was dominated by it, every word you said, movement you made, how you dressed, what you ate and anything else that makes you you had to be integrated or altered to meet whatever example the matriarch ( alpha-*****) of the group deem it to be.
combine that with being a hormonal wreck and getting mixed lessons on being a proper woman, being a equal woman, and for the hell of it lets throw in the " there is no equality, so use the fact your a woman and try to milk everything for what it's worth " group..
now bake that all together and garnish with petty, and you have what the average teenage girl of my era was.. even to this day I think back and wonder how many of them ended up knocked up right out of school, being kept as a loose trophy wife with no ambition or free thought in life, only to be dumped once their uselessness in day to day function wore out, and they stopped being appealing in the more " romantic sense"
