it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”
Working in an office with mostly fellow millennials is still hit-or-miss dependent on meme literacy, and it’s so unnecessarily stressful to have to make that split-second decision of what dialect I can use with each person.
That’s what I was thinking, like I didn’t grow up around people my age too much what with being homeschooled so my references are from stuff from the 80s, like the Muppet Show or Mel Brooks movies or Bob and Doug McKenzie OR going even more obscure from British sitcoms from the 70s. So while I kinda know memes I’m more likely to use stuff like “oh geez eh that’s a bummer,” with people I’m comfortable with lol.
Also Jeeves and Wooster but I think even LESS people would understand that.
It’s been said before but we really need to normalise the idea of not having been in a relationship / having sex / dating before your 20’s because it is literallyyyy so young and it absolutely doesn’t make anyone weird for not having had that experience before so I don’t understand why we get off shaming people for something so common
it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.
Stop telling girls they have to be super heroes and not princesses. Stop telling girls that wanting to be a mother or a homemaker isn’t a real job. Stop telling girls that makeup isn’t art. Stop making fun of girls who like being in a relationship and looking for love. STOP telling girls that femininity is bad. I thought being a feminist and being a woman’s rights activist was about giving women the freedom to choose. Stop the internalized misogyny.
Thank you.
Sincerely, a girly girl
Also, it’s not like girls have to choose between “girly” interests or “boyish” interests exclusively. Let girls like whatever they like. I was into American Girl dolls until I was 13 but there was a crossover period when I was also really into Star Wars, so I would dress my dolls up like Jedi knights and make up stories about their adventures. When left to choose whatever toys they want, a lot of kids will mix and match different interests, and that’s totally fine.
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