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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Things that annoy me
It really annoys me when people say "I don't wanna be 'that girl". But they always say it like this: I don't wanna be THAT girl. The intonation alone is enough to make my eyebrows come together, but the implication is that there is someone in the cliche world of women whom everyone despises because of some annoying or gauche attribute, and the speaker is certainly better than said 'girl', but must make the disclaimer that they are not that girl because they are currently doing something that 'that girl' would do. Obviously at that moment, they are that girl. Claiming one thing in words does not negate the action that has just been performed. I hate cliches in general, but this is one we need to eliminate from the English lexicon. It makes it words that in some way there is a sexist rant that accompanies it, that somehow we all know what an annoying girl is like. Blech.
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