Emily+M’s+OpEd+Article

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Hate… that’s a strong word. It is a word used a lot... too much. I am not going to use this word here, but I **DISLIKE WITH A FIERY PASSION** Ventura High School’s powder puff team! They think they are all that when in reality, these girls are wimpy, scared fools that are intimidated by Foothillians.=====

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This intimate repugnance all started about a month ago when this lame powder puff team would not allow foothill girls to be a part of this game. Rage and fury ran through my head when I heard this appalling nonsense. To exclude foothill from the team is complete **DISCRIMINATION**! While pissed off, I created a Facebook page to see if any girls from Foothill might be interested in becoming part of a kick ass powder puff team. No way was I going to allow someone to walk over my school, my team.=====

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Suddenly, the drop of doom (aka the president of the VHS powder puff team) approached me with an annoying grin and cynical laugh. I told her my ideas and plans about making a Foothill team. Then, the sassy girl talk started to occur. Upset with my plans, she looked up at me with a glare and said, “Foothill girls are not allowed! However, I will accept foothill athletes ONLY. You are ruining Ventura and Buena’s event and this is not acceptable.” This compromise was not enough for my standards! Why discriminate on girls who don’t play a sport? Some of the best athletes don’t play a sport at Ventura, but they want to be on a team! Yet, this “president” went on and on with her annoying statement “you guys need to stick to our own school activities!”=====

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Who the hell does she think she is? I’m not going to appease someone who discriminates on Foothill students! I received a text from her two days after our talk telling me that she and the VHS staff are making me take down the Facebook page and disband the team or there will be a consequence. After her punitive rant against me and my school, she asked if I wanted to join her team. Bitch, please.=====

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Okay, so after venting about this long story, what I am trying to complain about is that we are taught to stand up for what we believe in and yet history repeats itself. The majority shuts down the minority and the minority is too scared to stand up to the majority. The majority shuts down the minority and later controls the situation. Is this fair? Foothill was a part of this discrimination scheme and yet because I stood up for it, I got taken down, I receive the punishment. Humans are such hypocrites. We are all talk and no play. We are scared to stand up for what we believe in because we are scared to be looked down on by our peers; we are scared to be punished. However, in school, aren’t we taught to stand up for what we believe in? We are scared to not be popular, to be different. I received the punishment, the humiliation and yet no one was there to back me up. People are scared to fight against the majority. One person can’t do it all. We’re scared, timid, easily intimidated. We follow the crowd even though it may not be morally right. I just don’t understand why we do this….=====