Hook Ups

Hook ups: the topic of eighty percent of all high school conversation; and a hundred percent of the scandal. But it seems in American (and any culturally western nation) that there is some magical number that is the perfect amount of guys a girl can hook up with; a number no one seems to be able to achieve. If a girl hooks up with too few guys, she's a prude. If a girl hooks up with too many guys, she's a slut. No matter what school you go to, there are few girls who are spared the labeling of their romantic lives.

And the best part of this branding is that it is an almost completely female dilemma. If a guy gets with multiple girls at the same party, he gets called a player (which pales in comparison to names like whore) and gets a pat on the back from his friends. While if a girl did that, she's be labeled a slut, and pretty much have a shitty reputation for the rest of her high school career; or in a best case scenario, the rest of the year. To be fair, guys have their own pressures when it comes to their romantic interests, but rarely does a boy's love life come under the same scrutiny as girls.

Frankly, why do people even care? Ninety-nine percent of all the gossip and rumors about people getting together I hear at my school have absolutely no impact in my life. But even so, there are always the daily reports of the status of everyone's relationships. If people involved themselves in each other's business a little less I think everyone would be better off. Really, who are we to judge each other? If a girl hooks up with a bunch of guys, that's her business. And if a girl doesn't get with anyone, that's her business as well. I don't see why there is any need to tag a person's moral character based on anything but their qualities as a human being.