After each presentation had ended, the students were supposed to write comments on notecards and turn them in to the performers. The ones I got kind of looked like this:      Well, the ones I got from the girls went like that. The ones from the boys said the whole thing was "clever and funny." I was insulted with all these girls. They'd been a thorn in my side for too long! And come to think of it, there were WAAAYY too many commercials for dolls on TV! And way too many GIRLS on TV!!! ACTION HAD TO BE TAKEN!      Throughout the following summer, I launched a "BOYS WANT RIGHTS!" campaign. I got into Mom's magazines and vandalized the ads into little "freedom speeches." One ad, for a head lice shampoo, said "Jill just brought in 6,000 unwanted guests." I added in, "AND ONE OF THEM IS HER. BOYS WANT RIGHTS!!!"      I was outraged to see a picture of a boy dancing on a coffee table and the mother scolding him. So I put down what the mother was probably saying. I forget most of it, but I know it was pretty violent, and I know it ended with "AND THEN I WILL USE YOUR BLOOD IN A SALAD!!" It sounded like something my mom would do, anyway... At the bottom, I put: "BOYS WANT RIGHTS!!!"      I was such a radical, I even had a little "BOYS WANT RIGHTS" sign I would parade around the block whenever I went to my grandmother's. Grandma said my doing that made her nervous, especially when I stopped people on the street and yelled, "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A BOY IS???" Some actually didn't.      I never did completely follow through on my girl-extermination campaign, though. The next weekend I saw "Dick Tracy" on the big screen and really got into him, so that ended it. But now I had to have his hat and everything...

WHAT I LIKED: Micah's special report. WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: That kid who was really stupid and kept forgetting his lines Namely YOU!!!

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