“Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.” DifferentSchoolGirlHairHigh SchoolBlueAcceptedHelloGothicJuniorsJunior HighKittiesBlue HairHello Kitty Author:Nikki Reed
“In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set.” PeopleIfsWantMadeGuyGirlAsksLaughingComedyPercentUglyWowLiberatingJuniorsHideousWant HimJunior HighAsk A Girl Author:Mindy Kaling
“The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."” YearsTogetherGirlClassHeardExcitingPressesFeministChecksHopefullyLabelsJuniorsJunior HighExciting ThingsHigh Class Author:Kathleen Hanna
“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.” WantedSchoolGuyGirlSportsFriendshipFiguresHigh SchoolJuniorsSkatingFigure SkatingJunior HighSissyHigh School Junior Author:Scott Hamilton
“The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.” YearsSchoolGirlSexBizarreJuniorsJunior HighBracelet Author:Amy Heckerling