Popularity!
By Toni
@toniganzon (72281)
Philippines
August 18, 2011 10:16pm CST
I was once a fan of the TV series entitled Popular. It was about the life of two high school students who became step sisters. One wass popular while the other one was not. I love Glee as well and in that tv series those in the Glee club were bullied by the popular students.
Were you once a popular student?
I wasn't nor did i belong to the nerds. I was in the middle. Popular students didn't ignore me, nor have they bullied me. The nerds were intimidated by me but somehow they looked up to me. I never bullied anybody but sometimes i laughed at the hurtful jokes the popular students were doing to the nerdy.
Why do we have this kind of thing in school? Why do we have to be dictated by who's popular and who's not?
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7 responses
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
20 Aug 11
I feel weird~ My school days did not have such things...There is but not much since we are in girl school. Popular girls are those who have bad records- so everyone know them and some genius..but I would say not so popular too...We were surrounded by so-so class of students that time so we did not get much the popularity issue..
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
20 Aug 11
Those popular girls are infamous not famous! Well our country has adapted the western culture that's why we have such things as the popular and the geeks!1 person likes this
@Jelminrie (358)
• Philippines
19 Aug 11
I think I have experience all of those, I m once became popular and bullied and sometimes bully but those i bully were my friends I think that's just teasing. hhehe
I just became known because I joined a pageant and we are just few in our department. When I 'm in highschool no one noticed me, until 4th year. :)
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
20 Aug 11
Well did you enjoy being popular and bullying your friends? Did you get satisfaction from that experience?
@Jelminrie (358)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
I enjoyed being "popular"? Not at all, I find it so disturbing. so many eyes from maniac guys, eyes from insecure girls, it's not fulfilling. It's still better to be popular because of your character not because you are good looking. I used to look good, now I don't care if i look good or not it's nice to be simple.
I have two personal definition of bullying:
If bullying means making fun on someone, I did that when I am in high school and elementary, I cut a boy seatmate's hair, ask money for an ice drop from him, took his pens as souvenir (because I love pens even before, i do ask permission to get it,whether you like it or not you don't have a choice, I used my charms hehe.
And If Bullying means a fun and simple way of saying I love you to my friends, not finding it corni for them, I do it all the time, They said I am a jolly, bubbly person, which I admit, I made fun of them giving them pet names,which I think they like, they're using it, i am teasing them, everyday. Me and 3 of my friends have weird names...Mattot, chubbabes, mama bear, jaja. I am mattot. chubbabes is the chubby one (somebody gave her that name not me, mama bear, a smaller version of chubbabes, who dressed like a mama bear stuff toy, jaja, its the first two letters of her name.
@Jelminrie (358)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
Satisfaction?
There is no satisfaction in trying to be someone just to be popular, of course in high school if you want to b e popular you'll imitate a popular person, Being true to yourself is something that will make you stand out. On college I am very girly "kikay" which I toned down from just a simple "kikay", and then, a bubbly "kikay", now just a bubbly simple and sometimes kikay. I maintained my attitude worked on my worst tried to be a good friend and just desired to make them happy everyday, that's how i got my satisfaction in my student reputation.
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
19 Aug 11
hi toni.
well i started school at a young age so elementary up to sophomore year in high school, i was a target of bullies. i wasn't a nerd but because of my young age, i entered high school at age ten and mind you it was a special school for students gifted in science and math, i came across as a nerd as i had a different set of interest back then. i took it in stride though. come junior high i had proven to the bullies, without me trying at all, that i'm a cool enough guy to hang out with them so they stopped pestering me and i was actually part of their group. i wasn't keen with all the practical jokes they were pulling on other students so i didn't join them. i did have an occasional laugh or two at others but it was good clean fun and not those that hurt or embarrass anyone.
bullying has been a sad part of the education system. as much as we try to limit it and even end bullying in society, i think it'll take a great deal on everyone's part to address the matter. there is nothing wrong with being popular but its how we use it, wherein it becomes an issue with others.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
20 Aug 11
I must have missed this show. it doesn;t seem to ring a bell to me. I will have to do some research on this show and see what I have missed.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Aug 11
I wasn’t really anyone in school either. I wasn’t a nerd because I was funny, and pretty, and a little bit of a livewire .. but I dsid very well at my studies and was smart. I also wasn’t one of the popular girls, like the b!tches as we called them, but I did hang about with a group of 5 girls, and 3 of them were 3 of the nicer popular girls.. so I don’t really know if I was in the middle, or slightly nearer the top.
Younger girls in my school seemed to be intimidated by me, and then I came out as being gay when I was 15 and still in school.. so I suppose I had my own thing going on really. My hair was different, my makeup different, the way I dressed [well we had a uniform but like my shoes and jacket etc] were different, and I have a wicked sense of humour.. so I suppose I stood out from the crowd a little maybe. I was probably teased a little, but more because I’m a little quirky and weird than actually because I was bullied. I was definetly not bullied.. just teased because I’m intelligent intellectually, but socially I’m a little bit of a Barbie haha!
I love Glee, I think it’s amazing. The singing and the dancing, although I’m not a huge fan of that girl Rachel when she’s singing! Her mouth is HUGE! Haha!
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Aug 11
oh i forgot to mention, i was also a drama student.. so i was sort of in that crowd :)
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
I really wished one time Rachel would just close her mouth. I tried hard to see every angle of Rachel just to distract me from looking at her enormous mouth.@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Aug 11
it's scary isn't it! it's like she is going to eat you through the television screen haha!
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
19 Aug 11
when i was in highschool i didn't notice any difference between people with good academic achievement regular people or popular people with less academic achievement. They all blend nicely. I don't notice any bullies too, as young people sometimes we got into a fight but it's not bullies, it just young hormones. If there's a fight, it mostly about almamater where my school fight another school. but nowdays i see the news and i thing this bullying thing is starting to happen in my country.
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
It's great that no such thing happened in your school before.
@scjbxz (139)
• United States
19 Aug 11
I think I'm also in the middle. I'm friends with a variety of people, and don't find it intimidating to talk to the more "popular" people, or the less popular people, if you want to put it that way. I think that being in the middle is the best place to be. This way, you find yourself exposed to a lot of different people with different personalities, and different perspectives on life.
I really don't understand the whole popularity system that's present in school and whatnot. I think as long as a person is a good person, then they should be popular. But I think, in the end, there's not much we can do about it, so we just have to be true to ourselves and not care what others thing about you!
