Society is full of sweeping generalizations, and cultural coding...especially in the media. It's interesting to me how subconscious a lot of this is, and how many of us buy into it. I think it's good to bring it up to the surface and talk about it, or at least think about it, because I don't think these messages accurately represent reality; or are they fair to us as people when it comes to seeking the happiness we deserve to seek. So here's the messages I've personally received, being an American exposed to the media on a daily basis.

"Morality levels are going way down. There is so much more hate in the world, and such a large amount of sexual promiscuity. People are just seeking immediate gratification. They don't love each other anymore."

"Young Americans don't want to work as hard as young people all over the rest of the world."

"We are going to kill our planet within the next couple of generations."

"Everything is about monetary value. Nobody seems to care anymore about moral and spiritual value."

"The United States government is superior to all other governments in the world. They will be inferior to us until they convert to democracy."

"Americans are fat. They eat way too much, and don't ever exercise. Their health levels are lower than they have been in a long time because of their horrible life-styles."

"If you are a girl and you're fat, you are unattractive. If you are a girl who diets, you are anorexic. If you are a girl who can eat a lot and stay skinny, you've got it made."

"Girls: be sexy, but not sexual. Be gorgeous, but don't spend too much time primping yourself or you're a girly girl, and being feminine is not good. With the feminist movements, celebrate that you have to convert yourself into masculine ways to be treated as an equal...feminine ways are most certainly inferior. It's okay to jump up and down about sports, but not about the fact that you broke your freaking nail. But you'd better fix that. You'll never find a guy to like you if you're flawed."

"Guys: nice guys finish last. So don't be nice. You want girls for their bodies. If you talk about love or enjoying a girl's personality, you are a pussy. But you lie to girls and tell them you want these things, and you will score. When you score, you are a stud. Scoring a lot is good. You are tough, rough, like to fight, and you don't ever cry. If you do, you are weak. You love sports and being manly. Strength is everything. But you can't clena. That's a job for women. Don't ever do your laundry. And the attractiveness levels of the girls you score with is a measure of your worth. Well, that's one. The second is how much money you make. Girls will always put a monetary value on you, and it matters. So get rich. Or you're a bum."

"Guys that sleep around are studs. Girls that sleep around are sluts."

"Conservative girls are prude. Liberal girls are sluts."

"Wealth doesn't equal happiness. But for some strange reason, it is the best thing in the world to be rich. I mean, come on, you're the shit if you can buy what everybody wants. So basically, being rich doesn't make you happy, but rich people are happy. So get rich."

"Good moms stay at home and do everything for their children. It doesn't matter what they want; you have kids, it's all about what they want."

"Gay guys all have lisps, and are extremely feminine. You are a pussy if you are gay."

"Lesbians are hot. Girls: make out with a girl in public, and every guy within a hundred miles will be all over you. As long as you're hot."

"Guys: you want sex. You need it. You can't control it. Girls have to control it. So sexual promiscuity is all girls' faults."

"Girls: guys think with their dicks. So you can control them with this. They want sex...you have what they want. But it's your responsibility to stay moral, so make him wait until the perfect time. And then when it's right, make sure you please him, because sex is the way to his heart. Not that it ever occurred to you that you have sexual needs to satisfy too. Cuz...girls don't want sex."

"Guys give love for sex. Girls give sex for love."

"If you don't believe in God, you aren't moral. In fact, if you aren't Christian, you aren't moral."

"Christians are good people. Non-Christians are questionable."

"If you are academically driven, you are a nerd. If you are athletically driven, you are a jock."

"It isn't okay to use The Lord's name in vain in so saying "OH MY GOD!" Bu tit is perfectly fine to fight a war in the name of God because...who cares if God created the whole world? He favors us because we're a Christian society!"

"The Constitution says one thing. The Bible says another. Go with the Bible, dammit, who cares if this is a democracy and not everyone is Christian? Everyone that matters is Christian, so The Bible is all that matters."

"Perfect people don't have sex. Procreation is a very imperfect thing. It works for us, but man, would Jesus ever have sex? The virgin Mary? Of course not! THE SON OF GOD COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BORN BECAUSE OF FORNICATION! GROSS! HE IS WAY ABOVE THAT!"

'The worst you can be is ugly, fat and stupid. Who cares if you're ugly, fat and stupid, but you're a nice person? You can be the most cruel, cold-hearted SOB in the world, and you're still better than ugly, fat, stupid and nice."

"If you have green hair, you do drugs."

"If you are a single mom, you have failed at life. Unles your husband died. In that case, life has failed you."

"Men do not stay at home and raise kids. That is way pussy."

"Nobody stays married anymore."

"You're kids a juvenile delinquent. Now let's analyze what the hell went wrong with your raising them...clearly it's your fault."

"The perfect family has two parents, an older sister, a younger brother, and a pure-bred dog. The dad works in business, the mom is a stay at home mom who keeps the house in flawless ship-shape, the girl is nice to her brother and she hangs out with friends, talks on the phone, and giggles about boys. The boy plays sports and plays with the dog. If you do not achieve this image, it is a problems that you need to fix."

"If you are a man who gets married before twenty-five, something is wrong with you. If you are a forty-year-old man unmarried, you fail at life. If you are a woman who marries before twenty-two, you are a college-dropout who got married because you had pre-marital sex and didn't use a condom. And you will become a single mom in a couple years because your husband will leave you for a less easy woman, and since you'll be a single mom, you fail at life. If you are a woman unmarried by thirty, you fail at life."

"If two anythings are different, they are unequal."

"Telling someone how you feel is a burden on them."

"If someone comes to you with a problem, you must fix it."


All right, I guess I've gotten a little carried away...I could go on and on! lol It's interesting...got me thinking! Hope everyone has a nice afternoon!