Introduction

Hi. I'm an 11 year old girl in Grade 6. I'm from Egypt but live in Canada. I am proudly a muslim. All my life, I've loved writing. When I was less than 4 years old, my mother introduced me to Microsoft Powerpoint. I started to make "books" on it. When I started school, my love for writing just grew. But from kindergarten to Grade 3, I had something called Selective Mutism. In Junior Kindergarten, I wouldn't talk to my teacher. I was completely silent. I don't know what caused me to be like that. As the years went on, I would whisper and only talk to my friends aloud. I had therapy, but even the therapist couldn't solve the problem. So I did. I gathered the little courage I had and finally decided to transfer schools. I'm much more comfortable in the school I'm in right now. I talk out loud, have the best friends in the world, and have the best teachers a girl could ask for. I have given it some thought and realized. I love saying my opinion. I love hearing other's opinions. Being a journalist is the job for me. Now I don't know if my dreams will change, but for now, I want to make the most of this dream.

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Body Shaming



     Today's topic is all about body shaming, or should I say 'All About That Bass'. Great song by Meghan Trainor, but is it body shaming? Many people disagree, but I think it is. Don't get me wrong, I love the song and I love the meaning behind it but Meghan's lyric Go ahead and tell them skinny ******* that is a bit... too much. Is it right to point about people's shapes and sizes? Absolutely not.  Especially young girls who are already covering their faces with makeup thinking they aren't beautiful enough.Why must we have such little self esteem? Girls should be proud of themselves. If we're too busy trying to be fake to attract and impress men, when are we going to find the time to be ourselves? To accept ourselves? To love ourselves?
      I have a question. Why do we care so much about how we look? A long time ago, I used to watch a show called 'Berenstain Bears'. I would read their books as well. In one of the books, the mother bear is washing a whole bunch of apples. Perhaps this page rings a bell?


     The sister picked out a "funny shaped" apple telling her mother it must be filled with insects from the inside. The mother simply cut it in half. It was fine. The mother then picked out a perfect looking apple and cut it in half. It was was filled with worms. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's the inside that matters. Some people may be perfect looking on the outside but have many flaws on the inside. Some people will have flaws on the outside but be perfect on the inside. In the end, whoever I'm going to marry will see me perfect on the inside and outside. So why should I try and change how I look? I'm not even going to try to be "perfect" because my loved ones are going to see me that way even if I have flaws.

As Meghan Trainor once said

Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
Here's an amazing cover/parody by Natty Valencia. Natty changed some of the lyrics so they don't judge people as much. Click here to watch it.

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