[ SECRET POST #2772 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2772 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Audrey Tatou, Coco Avant Chanel]


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03.
[Orange is the New Black]


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04.
[Recettear]


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05.
[Mad Men]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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[Archer]


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08.
[Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant]


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09.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Divergent]













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Comments

[sarillia]

I never understand how girls who think like this don't find each other. My two best friends and I were like this in middle school and high school. We went around feeling superior to the other girls but we still managed to make friends with each other because we realized that the stereotypes don't fit literally every single girl but us. Obviously that's just my experience, but the fact that people act like it's rare confuses me.

[a_potato]

I think it some cases it has to do with where people live (I know there are some places where it's less likely to find girls -- or boys, for that matter -- who act outside of the norm), and in others, it has to do with the fact that some people don't actually want to find others like them.

But, yeah, I had a similar experience to you. I was "different," but there were a lot of other girls who were "different" in the same ways that I was.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was a girl, I literally had no other female friends like me. With the internet, it's a lot easier, but I used to be alone in a room with 60 other D&Ders, all male, at university.

I didn't actually meet any girls like me until I was 19, and then only because I changed. I moved from sciences to art.

I have a lot of sympathy for girls who go through this stage.

I didn't feel superior myself, I felt like an oddball, but to feel superior would have been totally logical, since society still places men's interests far above women's.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

but to feel superior would have been totally logical, since society still places men's interests far above women's.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Man, that attitude pisses me off.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yes! It's gotten to the point wherean when people post those nabbed-from-the-Internet images on Facebook of little girls liking superheroes or whatever, instead of "girly" stuff, I feel like posting, "yes, let's all make the little girls who DO like pink and dollies feel bad about themselves." Because that's how it always sounds to me.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Exactly! The point is supposed to be that it's okay for girls and women to like all of these things. Not that women are supposed to eschew anything remotely feminine.

It's a similar attitudes that people seem to have to women who start families - as if they've chosen a lesser life by chosing motherhood.

[(Anonymous)]

You really nailed it. This: to feel superior would have been totally logical, since society still places men's interests far above women's rings very true.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds a lot like my experience. I was literally the only girl in the computer programming class and one of three in the sci-fi/fantasy club.

It's easy to say "well, you should go look for more girls like you" but sometimes there really aren't any.

[sarillia]

I'm not criticizing anyone for not doing it. It just surprises me that it's not more common.

[(Anonymous)]

anon above

Yep. And then when I moved to art, I had the joy of all my new arty female friends looking down their noses at me for liking Star Trek and using it as an inspiration for my work.

The art world is a weird clique, though. In general society, men's contributions are more valued. A girl who can be one of the boys can get pretty far and can earn a lot more money.

Everyone was so much happier when I moved to art, even though the money is rubbish and hardly any artists make a living. It upset people so much that I liked engineering. Wow. I finally caved in after years of that drip drip, and I'm not the only one.

I moved back to the halfway house of accountancy. Numbers are lovely.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. It was amazing to find the internet. I didn't feel superior, just lonely, but I did consider many "girly" things to be stupid and a waste of time and society certainly backed me up on that one.

[(Anonymous)]

Some don't go out of their way to seek out fellows, because then that would turn their uniqueness down a notch.

Some literally can't find anyone else with this attitude, be it a small town or a conservative neighborhood, or some other factor.

[cloud_riven]

And give up their unique snowflake status? Who wants to do that!

[(Anonymous)]

Someone who would rather be lonely than talk about nail polish? Cause yeah, I was that girl.

[cloud_riven]

I'm not sure if you read me right. You wanted to make friends with people like you, who wouldn't talk about nail polish, in order to feel lonely because you are not friends with people who do?

[solticisekf]

what O.o I've read it twice and still dodn't get it. It's sounds like a tongue twister)

[(Anonymous)]

you're an idiot and you deserve to be lonely :)

[(Anonymous)]

My "friend" pools growing up were very small. I was with the same group of people from Kindergarten until I graduated from Junior High (and our class that final year only had 18 people in it). It wasn't until I went to high school that I ran into my first non-girly-girls, though at the time, I didn't make friends because I was too used to the "I don't get along with other girls" thing.

Then along came college, and I was finally mature enough, and had a big enough social pool, that us "weirdos" found each other. And we all thought it was the best thing ever. XD

[(Anonymous)]

College is a huge relief to so many people--I came from a fairly small town, and just going away to get fresh faces was great for my friends and me.

I will say, there were some fellow-weirdos at my school, a couple of whom I'm still good friends with thirty years later. We read constantly and liked British rock from the 60s (in a synth-pop era) and wrote stories we didn't realize were fanfic. What a riotous crew we were.