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In two days, it will be May 22nd. This is going to be one of the most important days of my life. One reason for this is that it will be my 18th birthday. 18. The big one. The age where I'm legally an adult, old enough to legally buy cigarettes, vote, etc. This is a huge deal.

Also, May 22nd will be the last day I attend Paul VI High School, a school I've attended for four years, even longer than I've had this blog. I will be officially done with high school as of May 22nd. Another HUGE deal. No longer a kid, a student, or a high schooler. An adult. Wendy Weissman. No longer a minor.

Despite the magnitude of this day, I have made no plans. None as to where I even want to have my birthday dinner, or who I want to spend it with. I feel no excitement, amazingly, and have basically treated this week like any other. How? How is that possible? How do I not feel excited? I don't get it.

Maybe I'm just not that excited about my life. Maybe it just hasn't hit me yet. Whatever it is, it feels weird.

I wish my Grandmother was still alive.

I say I'm going to be on here more often and I leave for another two weeks. Typical. Sorry guys, I've just been so busy with school ending and everything. I only have two  more days left and it's been insane.

I got voted Most Likely to Write a New York Times Best Seller!

I don't have much else to say except  I cried myself to sleep after Game 7 of the playoffs. I went to see the Caps play the Pens. Our loss was so humiliating and no more hockey until the fall! Sad.

I hope you're all doing great.

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A blog was posted on the community section of feministing by this chick in Virginia Beach calling herself meld.

Now, where she lives there is this "no cursing" law that basically bans any obscenity, curse words, sexual terms which are uncomfortable, harassment or intimidation.

So suddenly these conservative Christian zealots and start staking out the boardwalk.

"the zealot was holding up signs "REPENT WHORES" and was talking about all women who aren't married will burn in hell and all women who have sex are whores. He had signs up that said "REBELLION OF WOMEN WILL LEAD TO DEATH AND AN ETERNITY IN HELL" and was following girls who were in their bathing suits or a dress and called them whores."

[Feministing Community]

Wait, it gets better.

Now, to anyone normal, this would be stopped by the police, this qualifies as harassment and certainly disturbing the piece. But, starngely enough, the local police officer watching this does nothing.

"A cop was watching the crowd and my boyfriend went up to them and said "Aren't they breaking the rule by calling women whores?" and the cop was quite rude to them if I may say and said no. He later told them that the men were harassing the women and girls and followed them around and was intimidating them and the cop just said "That is irrelevant. The law doesn't enforce when it comes to that." Kinda shocked, but he was still trying to get him to say what the cop really wanted to say. Then, the cop got all big and ballsy and said "Whore is not a curse word, especially when directed to those that are deserving" and he told us to go away."

[Feministing Community]

Last time I checked, the law was the law, you asshole, and call me crazy, but whore is a sexual term that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. For this man to scream this and follow unsuspecting and innocent women around calling them whores definitely qualifies as harassment.

Not only does this police officer not do anything about it, he also APPROVES of it. As in he thinks that female pedestrians deserve to be called whores.

I am so fucking sick of people letting people demean and publicly insult women. Wheter it's this or a "Nice ass, Baby" on a street sidewalk, none of it should be considered acceptable. And yet, it is! Because even in America, after years of feminism, women still are not respected. It's still okay to make sick sexual comments about them and scream hideous slander against them. In fact, we deserve it! This police officer thinks that the women walking on the street deserve to be called whores! Why?

Well, really, there's never any good reason to call a woman a whore. Anyone who thinks so has serious issues. But even the ones who justify it with "she was dressed 'slutty'" or "she was acting like a whore" could possibly justify this. These were just women going about their daily business.

The reason they "are deserving" in the mind of the officer and the harasser? Because they're women.

You're allowed to say all sorts of things to women on the street. WHether it's a comment on their body or an obscene sexual proposal, women get it on the street and it's accepted. Because women deserve it, right? Or they're just humorless evil castrating bitches if they dare to object to harassment. Because we deserve to be disrespected.

Of course, this is an extreme example of street misogyny, but it reflects very easily the mindset a lot of people have toward women. Could you imagine, have you ever witnessed a guy being treated this way? Ladies, we don't deserve to be treated like a piece of ass because we had the audacity to walk in public. No one has the right to shout sexual comments or make obscene insults toward you, no matter who you are, how you're walking, or how you're dressed. It's not okay and it's not funny and you're not a bitch if you're hurt by it. Being a chick is not a crime and it's not something to be embarrassed about.

Just thought I'd relay the story to you all to show how some people really think. Maybe wake a few people up to the utter bullshit of this and recognize the same sort of crap in their day to day lives. Pass this story around. Speak up. Stop letting yourself be treated like a second class citizen.

You don't deserve to listen to perverted comment or misogynistic slurs directed at you just for being female. Just because you're a human doesn't mean you're not a person. You are a human being and people need to be reminded of that. You deserve respect.

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