by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 05/25/2017 at 08:47
by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 05/25/2017 at 08:47
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STARS: 11
I’m sitting in Starbucks in Manhattan and this little girl, who’s maybe about eight, is telling her mom this story:
“I hate her. She’s so boring. She tells such boring stories. Like, she came up to us and said ‘hey, wanna hear a crazy story?’ And we were like ‘YEAH! WE LOVE CRAZY STORIES!’ and she starts talking about how she couldn’t find her laptop charger. She went on for like, twenty minutes about how she couldn’t find her laptop charger. So she finished the story and we were like ‘Yeah. That was really crazy. Your life is so interesting.’ How can any person be that boring? She’s terrible.”
I hope my future kids are even half as bitchy as that little girl.
"jvirgs drives a Subaru" (jvirgs)
05/25/2017 at 08:52, STARS: 9
Man, that’s a crazy story! ;)
"X37.9XXS" (x379xxs)
05/25/2017 at 08:53, STARS: 4
This story could only occur in a Starbucks in Manhattan
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 08:54, STARS: 9
I hope my future kids are even half as bitchy as that little girl.
Yea...I don’t think you really want that
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
05/25/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 2
I don’t know, as long as the bitchiness is directed at other kids and not me, it certainly beats having to listen to them recounting entire plots of Disney movies.
I mean, really, which would you rather—listening to the little girl who thinks being unable to find a laptop charger is a great story or the little girl who thinks that little girl is an idiot?
"V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!" (v8demon)
05/25/2017 at 09:06, STARS: 4
As a father of 2 girls; 11 and 7, you DEFINITELY don’t.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
05/25/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 1
Oh, your life is SSOOOooooo interesting.
"avalonian" (avalonain19)
05/25/2017 at 09:36, STARS: 2
You’re potential kids are gonna be savage. We will need to set up play dates, kids usually like that end up being either really successful or extremely vain.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 09:42, STARS: 3
That bitchiness gets directed at everyone, it’s a power they can’t control
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/25/2017 at 09:44, STARS: 4
Oh, they can control it, they just choose not to.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/25/2017 at 09:45, STARS: 1
Sounds like a smart, confident kid, which is all good - - but I’ve got a niece like this and she’s a handful, believe me—
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
05/25/2017 at 10:01, STARS: 1
Girl power is a marvelous and wonderful thing, but I wouldn’t call it bitchy or bitchiness.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
05/25/2017 at 10:12, STARS: 5
I get the objection to the use of bitchy as a descriptor, but I don’t think this really qualifies as girl power. She was talking about how boring another girl is, not commenting about how she can do things just as well or better than a boy.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
05/25/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 2
The highlight of my week was overhearing an eight year old in a Starbucks. I have no illusions about how interesting my life is. :p
"BKosher84" (bkosher84)
05/25/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 1
That came from an eight year old? It sounds like it should have came from a 20-something sorority girl, lol.
"AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
05/25/2017 at 11:33, STARS: 1
I’m sitting in the Starbucks in the Empire State Building right now. I thought it’d be soooo cool to be at the Starbucks in the Empire State Building. Instead I’m in the seating “lounge” in the basement. I can’t even enjoy the coziness of the rain outside.
I should have gone to the one across the street.
"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
05/25/2017 at 11:44, STARS: 2
It seems no matter the sex I would classify it as wonderful bitchiness.
"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
05/25/2017 at 12:52, STARS: 1
I don’t have children yet and I’ve noticed that one.
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
05/25/2017 at 13:30, STARS: 0
I would argue that it’s most definitely girl power, especially when we, from a very young age, are trained not to speak ill of others in order to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. We’re taught that it’s sometimes better to stifle our opinions than it is to be bluntly truthful.
I know from first hand experience because, as a kid, I was a lot like the little girl you saw today. I couldn’t reconcile lessons that lying is wrong with contradictory lessons to always be nice, even if meant lying. As a kid, I was truthful to a fault. But being blunt meant I was told I was rude, or bossy, or yes, even that gendered insult, bitchy. I never heard similar admonishments directed at my brother. Or other boys. But I did see similar things in action with other girls.
So yes, it IS girl power for that little girl to speak her mind so plainly. For her to feel safe enough and empowered enough to share that opinion with her mom and elaborate exactly why she felt that way. And it was also girl power for her mom not to admonish her daughter for speaking her mind in such an eloquent way.
There’s a video of a social experiment with children that demonstrates this social custom of teaching girls to be polite above all else, but I couldn’t find the link to it. I did, however, find a link to this ABC News story, which replicated the same social experiment (serving boys and girls lemonade made with salt instead of sugar).
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123726&page=1
I hope you give it a read.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
05/25/2017 at 20:39, STARS: 0
There used to be a Starbucks on West 33rd across from the Empire State Building that was most efficient Starbucks I’ve ever been in. During rush hour, they’d have people with walkie-talkies go down the line of 30 or so people taking orders so that by the time you get to the register, your drink is ready. I don’t know why more Starbucks don’t do that.