The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

Thursday, July 16, 2009

EXTRA-CURRICULARS: The New Harry Potter Movie is Worse than Puberty

I'm gonna keep this short, to make sure I don't drop any "spoilers."

...But, let me say, heading to a much-anticipated movie at midnight, enduring high school bitches wearing incredibly short plaid skirts as "costumes" in order to find a seat, and wrecking my concentration for the rest of the week (yes, I'm that old, staying up until 3 AM one night does that to me), is only worth it if, well, it's worth it.

Let's just say for all you Harry fans out there, we're talking a whole lotta teenagers-get-hormones-isn't-that-funny moments, a whole notta-particularly-well-explained-plotline.

If I hadn't read the book mere days before (yes, I do these things) I would have been totally lost.

I get it, you gotta play to the teens, but must we assume all teens want an ABC-family channel ready version of romance, without any plot?

Oh yeah, that's why we hate puberty so much in the first place.

-posted by Jilly
at 9:44 AM
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2 comments:

  1. KarlaJuly 16, 2009 at 8:49 PM

    One might almost conclude from this post that watching others pretend to go through puberty is in and of itself worse than puberty. How very meta of you Jilly.

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  2. Jilly GagnonJuly 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM

    Meta is betta, after all.

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