Mon 19 Feb 2007
Cinema, AMC/Loews Waterfront.
The ads are running before a movie:
Nerdy Girl: I had a friend who mixed LSD and heroin. She lived, though.
Guy Friend: All I can say to her is, “Congratulations.”
Nerdy Girl: Yeah, she didn’t remember much of her freshman year of high school.
Overheard in Pittsburgh
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February 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
ewww, that reminds me of the CSI episode involving the soccer team and PCP
February 20th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
What’s up with this “Dumb Girls” tag? I really don’t care for it, especially since it doesn’t seem to have a “Dumb Boys” counterpart. It seems more mean-spirited than this blog needs to be, and it shows up an awful lot. Girls can be dumb. Boys can be dumb. Black people, white people, green people, dogs, bartenders, hipsters and bus drivers can all be dumb, but it’s only girls who get slapped with a tag.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:14 am
I have “frat boys”, which is pretty similar, but I don’t get as many submissions for that. I’ve gotten a ton of submissions about loud, stupid teenaged and college-aged girls. I am trying to add excessive tags now, and then when I finish tagging everything, reduce it down to what’s actually helpful.
Sorry to offend in this instance.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:20 am
I really do feel this tag comes up so much because I get so very many posts about girls saying something stupid. And in this instance, perhaps the tag does not fit. Last night, I began to group some tags by speaker, and that is the usual use for this tag.
Can you suggest an alternative?
It needs to be short and to the point, but perhaps less dismissive of a gender.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pm
sexism much? how about every dumb thing said by a boy gets a “dumb boys” tag? or is that not tagtastic enough for you? you’ll put “thug” or “hipster” down, but not “dumb boy”… if that ain’t straight up sexism, you are not a priviledged white man.
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 am
Maybe you don’t understand just how many submissions I get about generic, stupid high school and college girls, as opposed to the very specific types of male submissions I get. Frat boys is the only male-gendered speaker tag. There are two female-gendered tags: Mean Girls and Dumb Girls. Mean Girls is pretty specific, but the Dumb Girls tag covers what is by far the most submitted type of entry. The rest of the tags are gender-neutral.
These tags are influenced by the way contributers describe the speakers in their submissions. I would add women to Thugs, but I never get any submissions with female speakers described this way. I have applied Hipsters to speakers of both genders — or should I say, “the only two genders my privileged white eyes can discern?”
Using these tags does not make me sexist. The fact that I don’t think women should be allowed to vote is what makes me sexist. Am I right, fellas?
Wocka wocka.
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
hmmm. at first i was a little bothered by the fact that this tag did seem so negative towards girls, but after thinking about it awhile i think in the context of this site it’s appropriate. overheard isnt about value judgements, it’s a reflection of what happens in the real world. if people are racists or sexist or whatever, that’s gonna be reflected in a site like this. and in our culture girls learn that being ditzy is acceptable for them and guys don’t get that same sort of training. so if girls act ditzy in the real world and people percieve them as ditzy, i feel like it’s acceptable for this site to show that. there are plenty of other circumstances in which sexism should be fought against, but this isn’t really one of them.