Dear Bloody Makeout Girl, Corner Jeep Girl and Drunk Grove Interview Girl,
Hey, y’all. How’s your semester going? Grades good? Parking okay? Great. Good. Yeah. I hope everything’s going well for you. I wish I could address you by your names — because honestly, you’re so much more than the butt of jokes from YouTube and Ole Miss Problems, and I hope you know that and that everyone else knows that, too.
I’m not going to lie and say that I wasn’t 50 shades of amused by what happened to y’all at first, and more than a little filled with secondhand shame for you — it’s one thing to make a mistake, or be a victim of the effects of turning up too much, but to have those things go viral … I mean, the Internet read you ladies for filth. I can’t imagine where your proverbial wigs might be at this point.
Phew. But the Internet, as Kim Kardashian would probably tell you if her thoughts weren’t already preprogrammed by Kanye West into single-syllable words, won’t be what destroys your success or value as a person, if anything ever does. The fact that gossip spreads like wildfire and that a lot of people take the opportunity to show the Twitterverse how witty they can be at your personal expense doesn’t make you bad people, nor does it decrease your value as women or students of the university.
Some people might want to sacrifice you on the altar of Dumb Ole Miss Girls and leave you there as an easy-enough idol on which they can deposit their judgement, but you are not any stupid “other” worthy of scorn, and your mere womanhood doesn’t predispose you to these things happening and shouldn’t predispose you to casual slander, either. Hold your heads high and let the haters stay mad. Here’s to living in the present.
Your ally,
Sierra
Sierra Mannie is a junior classics major from Ridgeland.
-Sierra Mannie
ssmannie@go.olemiss.edu
