I’ve lived in girl world for a long while (i.e. my entire life), so I’ve seen and experienced my fair share of pettiness. Yet no matter how much pettiness I’ve been exposed to and familiarized with, it somehow still manages to disappoint me to realize that some boys can be just as petty as some girls, sometimes even more so. One such petty thing some men partake in is ghosting. To ghost someone is to completely ignore him/her and act like the person does not exist, as though you never knew him or her, nor cared about him or her. Ghosting can also simply be defined as an extremely petty thing to do. I find it funny how men complain about women being very passive or vague about what’s bothering them, but it seems that men do the same exact thing at times, becoming distant, sometimes to the point of ghosting the other person. Girls ghost too, this is true, but I find a humorous sort of irony in guys doing this, too, in this way. Girl or guy, I think those of us who have been on the receiving end of ghosting agree—ghosting needs to stop! It’s an extremely petty, annoying, and insensitive thing to do. Listen up. Halloween’s over, guys, and we’ve had enough of the ghosts. So, take the white bedsheets off yourselves and stop acting like ghosts by partaking in the act of ghosting others. Like no, seriously, stop—it’s frickin’ annoying.
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oxford Emory chapter.