Carly+C’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Girls, Please take a breath.....=


 * Daily topics around my friends that are girls is, "Oh my gosh! Did you hear?!" "So n so hooked up or so n so got in a fight or so n so broke up." It's this vicious cycle of never ending news about everyone's personal life. And where does it end? Well it doesn't. It just keeps on going till something new comes along that’s worth talking about.... And just to clear it up, I'm not saying that I don't walk around telling people what another person told me. Because I do. And it's so easy to get caught up in it. This speech is not about drama. It's about how girls, specifically teenagers, are so overly dramatic. In ten years, is it really going to matter that someone broke up. It is time for girls to keep their mouths shut about other people's business, and stop creating more of an issue. **
 * Boys happen to be the main cause of this over dramatic lifestyle girls have come so accustom to. I have heard to many of the same stories of how they go out for a week, and they are “in love”. How they are already planning the wedding and what to name their kids…..No, you’re not in love. You just want love and like the concept of it. **
 * Likewise, it’s so easy for a girl to make a little issue like hanging out with a boy, a big deal. If I go to the movies with a guy, it is assumed by most girls my age that is was a date or we hooked up. But in the end we just went to hang out, because we are friends. That’s It. Or if I talk to a boy that has a girlfriend, I automatically become a slut and “am trying to take him away from his girlfriend.” **
 * Just to give an example of teen girls being overly dramatic is when social media is in the situation. A tweet I just recently saw was, “Im so glad this is over.” This tweet by a boy who just had split up with his girlfriend, who intentionally tweeted it because he had just taken his AP test, and had been so grateful, like many of us, to finally be done. But unknowingly, the girl was quick to make an assumption that it was over her relationship with him. She jumped to conclusion, and started tweeting things about him. blowing this situation out of proportion. **
 * According to Urban Dictionary a Drama Queen is Someone who turns something unimportant into a major deal. Someone who blows things way out of proportion when ever the chance is given. And an example they give with this is "Oh my God! You copied that without giving me credit! That is just mean. You're horrible, don't ever talk to me. Im gonna go tell everyone what a cruel person you are just so they will pay attention to me and think im cool." **
 * I think the worst situations are girls sports teams. I have had to deal with dramatic softball players for the past 12 years. It has now come down to competing with each other, rather than the other team. Fighting about who is captain, who took your spot or who hitting first. Rather than cheering on your team In the dugout, you cheer that she breaks her leg so you can be out there playing. Oh and just to clear up any misconceptions, we softball players are not all lesbians. **
 * Its so easy for girls to just assume, and that’s what causes a lot of the issues. Like if boys think shes attractive, shes a hoe. If she hasn’t had her first kiss, shes prude. And I’m so tired of girls making things up about me and being dramatic about them. That if something happens that you don’t agree with, it is NOT the end of the world. **
 * We girls need to take a breath, realize everything is going to be ok. And In the America I grow old in, I want this life of constant hatred of each other and this constant over dramatic lifestyle of teenage girls to be over with. i want girls to stop worrying about the little things that aren’t going to matter in ten years. **