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The real reason you're using 'Girl Math' isn't as funny as the TikTok trend would make you think (www.businessinsider.com)

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[+] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have a penis. My partner a vagina. She's way better with money than me and uses trig every day for her work (lighting design is math intensive).

Meanwhile, I yell at my computer trying to get my remedial fraction homework figured out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it's done a self-deprecating humor, I understand. They know it's not rational, but they still want to do the thing, so they give it a label that's kind of funny and make a video

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the trend was started by a girl and is carried by others girls i don't see the problem. self deprecation isn't a thing anymore or what ? "Boys will be boys" is about doing the dumbest shit with your friends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm lucky I survived my childhood. Beer, guns, teenagers, and the woods make for lots of great boys will be boys stories that horrify me now thinking back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Most people are lucky surviving past childhood. As kids we have literally no survival instinct and the stupidest ideas.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My theory is, that while calling it "girl maths" to imply it's bad maths is indeed quite sexist, it kind of get's canceled out because hating and being bad at maths is actually "cool" and "hip" with the young people.

Can someone please send another big Asteroid our way?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hating and being bad at maths is actually “cool” and “hip” with the young people.

That is nothing new, it is called being a teenager. It is part of the human physiological development where we push back against our childhood authority figures in an attempt to define our selfhood.

You (and I and all of us) were as insufferable as teens as the current generation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not limited to teenagers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True. Most grow out of it but many don't.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a real article and not satire? Clearly those videos are making fun of bad financial decisions, they aren't causing or a symptom of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Read it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amortization. How I justify a $600 ski pass. If I ski 30 days, it breaks down to just $20 a day. If I average 15 runs each ski day it's just $1.33 a run. I also end up skiing more often because my pass is already paid for.