Women Who Want Attention  "She just wants attention" is a phrase
I frequently hear. It's in regards to the girl who cut herself,
and the girl who was on anti-depressants. Or the girl (this
girl, actually) who had anxiety attacks, or the anorexic girl.
All of us were quickly dismissed using that contagious needy-
for-attention rationale, and I guess the easiest explanation as
to why is simply, well, middle-schoolers suck. They lack empathy
and sympathy, and it's easy to resort to apathy. But here's the
thing: entering Social Studies half an hour late into a room of
kids who know very well why you were just in the counselor
office and still choose to whisper about how you're probably
just PMSing or angry about something girly and stupid like shoes
or whatever — it's really hard to walk into that situation. You
have no choice (one has to return to class, after all), and you
continue to feel awful even if you manage to endure it. (Some
people might respond here with a typical anti-feminist slur:
that I'm only wri