Day 3—Victoria Secret Semi-Annual Sale
… Well, kind of. See apparently my Roommate read the Victoria Secret website wrong and we ended up going to Victoria Secret a day before the sale actually started. Therefore, I ended up going to the Victoria Secret Semi-Annual Semi-Sale. It was all right though; I got some deals and that made me pretty happy. But, more so, I’d say what made me the happiest was the company around me.
I live with two Peruvian princesses. And while they are not royalty in the literal sense they are totally the Peruvian princesses of my heart--Even if they can’t read Internet websites.
So, today was spent in the company of my roommates having a girl’s night topped off with the movie, “Easy A”. The movie brings up a really interesting point about promiscuity and how much negative press someone receives when the own up to their sluttyness (Even though in her case her sluttyness was fake but that’s beside the point). Rumors spread about her sex-ventures and she places a red “A” on her chest a la Hester Prynne in the Scarlett Letter in order to convince everyone the rumors are true. More importantly though, the main character wonders if a guy will ever take her seriously and ask her out, not just ask to get it with her.
The movie made me start to think, in the midst of our sexual revolution where a woman should be free to own up to her sexual encounters, are men too uncouth to treat a woman as a gentleman should if she wear her metaphorical scarlet “A” proudly? Or an even better question, is it a good idea for a woman to proudly wear her “A” or does that turn the true gentlemen off?
Where’s the balance?
In the case of “Easy A”, apparently you can still find a super hot gentleman who will live out every cheesy 80’s movie ever, sweep you off your feat, and make you his lady despite the school thinking you’re easy. But that’s the movies. Our lives are so much more complicated and definitely not as romantic comedy-y. I feel that’s what I’m trying to accomplish with my year of being single. I certainly don’t want the scarlet “A” burned across my chest, but I do want to go out and meet interesting people, make a genuine connection with them, and not be in a committed relationship. Does me saying I am going to be going out on dates with different people in essence brand me with a label I don’t necessarily want to have?
I figure, in order to make me happy, I just have to say screw the label…
And Victoria Secret for not having that sale. Jerks.
Get it, girl. The TRUE Gentleman actually looks past the layers of labels we acquire over time to the fabulous woman beneath. Stay strong!
ReplyDeleteThere's two kinds of sluts. Slut #1 sleeps with as many men as she is able in order to attain a sense of power over the opposite sex. She thinks that by using men as meat she can promote self-worth and an attitude that says "I'm the best bitch, bitches." Underneath this shattered glass sharp exterior she is really aching with a need to overcome the wrongs she feels men have done TO HER. Her sluttiness sits in the place of revenge.
ReplyDeleteSlut #2 is clueless. She wants a man and she wants him bad. She thinks that by giving herself to as many men as she is able she broadens her chances of finding "the one." This slut is usually vewry clingy and obtrusive to the lives of the men she is trying to trap (often many at once). The men tire of her and see her as a piece of meat because her personality has no strength to offer and she ends up lonely in the bed of another stranger night after night.
I think if you search yourself and don't find either of these sets of sluttish "qualities", you are not a slut. However, if you find equal amounts of these sets of sluttish "qualities", you still aren't a true slut....you are simply confused and will grow out of it.