Under a Sea of Thoughts

Ever see the movie Mean Girls? It's a really funny movie that I think exaggerates how toxic the social hierarchy of high school can be. In the movie, what I find particularly interesting is how the high school's top of the food chain, the cream of the crop, the "plastics", fit the name so well. They embody the ideal body image and do they not look exactly like pretty pink plastic Barbie dolls?  There's a scene where Karen Smith (which by the way is the most basic mass produced name in the world) is on camera as a weatherman and holds her breasts to tell the weather. I always wondered how and why this was included in the movie but it was funny nonetheless. Maybe she implanted a barometer in her breasts similar to those of Barbie's breasts that "are so out of proportion to the rest of her body that she'd fall flat on her face". I think the intention of the directors to include these plastic people is to parody how fake people can be in high schoo

I am very tired. Not because it is currently 3:34 AM and I’m on a bus to the airport to fly back to Michigan. However, that is a slightly minor  contributor to my fatigue. No, I’m tired of the way scientific progress has been hindered by government interference and faulty media coverage. The sheer amount of false balance that the media advocates in “impartial” news reports is sickening. Highly established proofs about climate change, for example, scream with the silenced consensus of “ 97% of all scientists who agree that global warming is caused by humans ”. The fact that people still are on the edge about climate change in spite of such a shocking statistic should be a clear indicaion of bigotry and exploitation of ignorance. I therefore disagree with the views of Chet Raymo because the politics of science are at most peripherary in the large scheme of mankind’s progress. Raymo claims he is looking out for the future of proliferating scientific research, saying that “the unexamined q

The Fearless Girl is a powerful embodiment of the feminist movement. The young brave girl is a stark representation of the courage it takes to stand up for equal rights. However, the sole purpose of the girl was to serve as a counterpart to the Charging Bull, which is an "aggressive threat to women and girls - a symbol of patriarchal oppression”. If Di Modica really wanted to move his expensive masterpiece away from the attention-drawing girl, Fearless Girl would then become “really confident girl” as one author notices. But honestly, what’s wrong with that? Feminists have had to consistently prove themselves over and over throughout history. Wave after wave of feminists with slightly different agendas have had to take tiny yet monumental steps for women in order to be taken seriously. Now, in the 21st century, the role of feminism is already well established and very widespread. Feminists are making real change happen. So why do they feel the need to prove that they are bra