The other night, I was having trouble falling asleep due to a mix of allergies, weird late-night energy bursts, and a mind that would not just slow down for two seconds to let me relax enough to get some rest. I kept thinking about something I'd seen on Facebook earlier that day, a picture that someone had (thankfully) edited to take away the very negative message the original was sending.
The beautifully altered image rejected the polarizing and, quite frankly, stupid aims of the original post. See, what really gets me angry are these posts that very clearly aim to separate women into two groups--mainstream women and "the others." It is not cool to be a mainstream woman. It is cool to be one of "the others." I've seen so many women my age sharing stupid pictures on Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr or whatever claiming that they aren't "like other girls," and celebrating that, while also demonizing the "other girls" that they are so happy to separate themselves from.
I guess to really get a grasp on what these two categories that women are supposed to be fitting into in order to avoid being a stupid, lame, mainstream loserface, I'll break them down for you:
I guess to really get a grasp on what these two categories that women are supposed to be fitting into in order to avoid being a stupid, lame, mainstream loserface, I'll break them down for you: