Heroes & Tentacles

Dec 05, 2006 10:28

Just watching Heroes Ep 9 ( Read more... )

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ggreenapple December 5 2006, 18:53:28 UTC
Jeeze, what are American High Schools like?

I think it's not the high school specifically, but only being a teenager that's torture. :)

Anytime you throw a bunch of people together, there's always going to be competition, and cliques. Now throw into the mix volatile hormonal adolescents, looking for mates, wanting to break away from the family, some of them wanting to get into good colleges. It just amps everything up to eleven. I imagine that's a universal Western experience.

And later, you know.. all that pressure is off. You're an adult, making your own decisions; or, like me, you discover that what men find attractive in a woman and what other women want women to look like aren't necessarily the same thing; and most people don't call you "fag" or "dog" or "bitch" when you're walking down the street, or pass notes about you during business meetings. Unless you're online, then it's like high school 24/7 ( ... )

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cocombat December 5 2006, 19:32:12 UTC
Hmmmm... I was a teenager.
(I think?)
It wasn't so bad.

Eh, it wasn't so much the Heroes thing, as the general context, just made me wonder.
I should probably find someone who's seen both US & NZ highschools to compare, and tell me what it's like.

Actually, I now remember that I did talk to an australian girl once, who'd had to move to the US, and she said it was horrible, crying-in-the-bathrooms horrible. o_O
Could have been the culture shock too, though (and hippy, and lesbian :( ).

Ok, so, this doesn't have much to do with anything.
:P

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ggreenapple December 5 2006, 19:40:45 UTC
It wasn't so bad.

a lot of people would agree with you. :)

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ggreenapple December 5 2006, 19:56:10 UTC
she said it was horrible, crying-in-the-bathrooms horrible.

i certainly did my share of crying. i never managed to fit in anywhere. but that's just me -- i'm the same person now that i was then. always worrying about what people are thinking about me, always apologizing, always holding myself and others to impossible standards.

the only difference is that now, i have a hard time hating. i was an expert hater when I was fifteen. can't find it in me to do that any more.

i think it's just like anything: you make of it what you make of it.

you seem pretty fun and easygoing and friendly, and so yeah -- i bet high school was easier on you than others. :)

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