The day after the election is what inspired me to write this. I'll start off by saying what actually happened. I somehow felt this urge to get into a Twitter argument among some people I went to high school with because why not? I thought, they're irrelevant to me now but let's see what happens. The argument consisted of my two friends and I against two other girls (we all went to the same high school). The argument was supposed to be intelligent but it turned into viciousness.

There are so many stories that I have where I witnessed girls from my high school act like this, but I'd be writing a novel. This is the one that affected me the most. It got to the point where a girl started making slut-shaming related comments towards her. My friend has pretty thick skin so she couldn't have cared less about what that girl said but it made me snap. Not in a crazy or bad way snap, but the kind of I've-had-enough-with-your-crap sort of way. It was supposed to be an intelligent conversation so why did you have to make nasty comments? This is the problem: when people run out of things to say they resort to nastiness, instead of either moving on from the conversation while respecting the other person's opinion or have another intelligent answer.

My point is that it's typical for girls to pick at another girl in a nasty and malicious way. This has got to stop. The thing is is that it doesn't even matter what grade you're in or if you're a grown woman, we cannot keep picking one another out and pointing fingers at our flaws. What we need to be doing instead is building up because that's the only way to success, tearing down gets you nowhere and that's what I learned from this twitter argument.

I learned who the real respectable people were and the ones who make the comments are the ones who never changed from high school, the good news is that they can. So to the girls from high school: yeah you were mean to my friends and I, but we don't care and we never did, but that's not what this is about. This is about how you need to grow up and move on from your nastiness cliquish ways and start acting like a woman.