What's The Buzz?

In a genius move, BuzzFeed has successfully integrated satirical videos of the real world and social components. Now, instead of scrolling through an obscure number of best couples costume ideas or how to make breakfast the right way (why does it have to stop at a certain number, anyway?), one can spend minutes to hours watching these videos about things that highlight what one thinks, feels, or realizes in social circumstances! It's like they know everything about your life!!

In all seriousness, BuzzFeed has come up with some good material, and they made one particular video having to do with a post I wrote last month (it was more or less a rant on how an article got posted online about the benefits of catcalling). The weird thing was that the upload date marked on this video was a week before the actual New York Post article was published. So it was either good timing for BuzzFeed to produce this video, or I'm not doing my research very well.

Here's the video!
BuzzFeedYellow - What Men Are Really Saying When Catcalling Women

Just want to say, kudos to the people behind this. Not only are they mocking the crap out of these types of men, but they're doing the right thing and taking a stand against this kind of disrespect. For the excuses they came up with, these guys seem to have it spot on that there are men out there who are just so insecure, frustrated, and have no idea how to converse like a normal human being. Hopefully with how many viewers BuzzFeed reels in, and with the aid of social media, this video's exposure can prompt a social change, and create a generation of civil human beings who will not resort to this kind of behavior.

All of this is powerful stuff, and we all have the power in our hands to make change. Could you imagine back in the day, you had to play the telephone game to garner support, make posters and flyers from scratch (pen and paper), and stand on a soap box to make sure your voice was heard. Now, we can do so much more with a computer, some hand-held cameras, cell phones, etc. Not to preach, but my minimal contribution to this social change movement is making sure things that I write about are more than just my opinion; I hope to at least elicit some thought from my readers, that is if anyone reads this damn blog (congrats if you made it this far!). There are so many things that need to be brought to our attention instead of passing over them like newspaper headlines. Rather than complain about the problems in the world, or making justifications that your point of view is a Godsend, we all need to do our part and talk about how to make things better. That, or come to a understanding. BuzzFeed has done that and shows they understand, through comedy, that catcalling is embarrassing for everyone involved.

Time to stand on your soapboxes, grab your cameras, and type away what you're going to do to change the way people see things. I'm sure it's been heard thousands of times already, but it's appropriate: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Start a buzz.