july3girl |
03-20-2015 08:52 PM |
You don't have to read this I just needed to post it cause it's been making me mad.
so on sunday i was a sunday school and this couple who are my parent's friends are the teachers. anyway, though none of us kids really know each other, we have kind of staked out tables and such, which are pretty gender separated. basically, we were assigned another table (a girl's table to a boy's and vice versa) and we were to write down how to make the kid's at that table's life better. so while my kind-of friends and i were coming up with ours (ie. "help them with homework," "talk to them," etc.) we could kind of hear our assigned table (who were assigned to us as well) say random words like "make up," "nail polish," etc. of course, we were all really offended, but it got worse. when it was their turn to go up and present their ideas, they showed a picture of a stick girl. they had slathered color on to her face to represent make up, as well as colored her nails purple and colored her dress a hot pink. they said that they would make our lives better by giving us make up. one of the kids said that they would do this because he gave some to his mom for her birthday and he says she felt special. we all crossed our arms and started arguing, but then one of our teachers, the woman who my mom is friends with, kind of glared at us and then said something including "I think," "you," and "special." Which if they had just written on their paper "make them feel special." which isn't even making our lives better.
One of the things that angers me so much about this is how they had to "give" us something to make us feel special. And how it's like they're telling us we need to cover our faces with it. And it's not like any of us wear makeup, because we're all only 11. And also how my teacher stood up for them, even though the whole rest of the class (other, non sexist boys included) could see that the boys were being sexist. Also, these teachers are my parent's friends, so it's not like I can talk to them about it.
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