Social Bigot Girl

My face planted firmly in the dirt, eyes watering and face in pain from the dusty impact of the arena. A foot at my back and a voice whispering insults in my exposed ear. “This is what my life has come to”, at least that’s what I thought until I realized that this wasn’t the type of story I was in. There were no epic battles or damsels in distress, no villains to beat, and no tyrants to be had. At least not in the way I just described it. My battle wasn’t in an arena, it was in a high school. And this story most definitely not about a bold girl fighting her way out of a situation. I wish I could say it’s about a shy girl whose introductory vibes are what would have been described as rude and standoff-ish. About a girl who finds herself lost

Let’s start with the social bigotry. Social bigotry is a term that us plebeians use to describe the shiny dolls of the popular and social elite. They are the people that would be your opponents in the metaphoric arena. They are the ones that fight you with sharpened swords and other fancy gadgets while the rest of us are stuck using poor quality spears made of flimsy wood and dull stone. They are the characters that present the rest of us with our underlying problems like how we could possibly survive the constant whispers of how the socially inept (weirdos, crazy kids, lame kids, etc.) are just that, socially inept. These are also the characters that will eventually provide you a challenge of whose smarter or who can get the coveted position of valedictorian. But, they aren’t the ones you truly need to fear, that title is reserved for those labeled as teachers. In high school, your teacher could be the kryptonite to your future. You might end up with the nice teachers who are truly focused on your education or you could end up with those teachers that remind you of monsters that you needed to fear in children’s stories. Those are the ones the final bosses of each level of your high school game. They are the difference between us walking across that stage for a diploma and us being stuck in school for a repeat of rounds. They are the evil wizards that end your quest with an unasked-for bang that leaves you blown to