How to win at social media: GenX Edition.
Time for the weekly go-round between high school friends from the nineties about about abortion.
In the green we have OP: lifelong liberal, feminist AF, atheist leaning agnostic because “ . . . Until we have scientific evidence for a deity, or you know, not a deity, who am I to claim to know either for sure?” Also known for swearing like a sailor while dressed like Jackie O, and being a winter carnival trivia challenge badass. Knows the words to all of the great Hip Hop and R&B jams from New Edition and Biz Markee, to Dru Hill and Tha DEE OH Double GEEEEEE.
In red, we have Catholic Zealot Father of Daughters, CZFD for short: OP’s senior prom date turned anti-choice freak, working for the diocese, and raising multiple young girls who are learning already, that the female body must be treated as the subject of male beliefs with no evidence behind them.
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR THE AMAZING SUPRISE GUEST IN THIS WEEK’S SHOW!!!!!!
OP share a post from another high school, but CZFD probably wouldn’t know her cause she was kind of a goth. Anyway . . . the posted tweet in question:
(The black represents the bystanders who never miss this show)
Ok, right on time CZFD is home from church and ready to stir shit up.
Nice attempt to link abortion with gun issues, usually more of a move for the evangelicals like OP’s cousins . . . One was a year above OP at the very same, small high school, and the other was a year below CZFD.
OP is back with a well reasoned accurate retort, that not only eviserates CZFD, but also shuts up those friends who think she’s a commie who wants to take all of their guns away, they DO tend to run in the same circles as your various religious folks who support the patriarchy.
OP continues to lay it down. Now you may be asking yourself, why on earth would people be 1. using Facebook and 2. Using whole sentences? Remember, these are GenX folks, you millenials call them “olds,” we learned to type on the Apple IIe in keyboarding class for Christ’s sake, so we can handle full sentences at 50 WPM, if this wasn’t from Facebook you wouldn’t be able to read it because we know how to write in cursive, and now that we are old enough for arthritis, and it’s is just simply way more easy on one’s joints.
CZFD comes back with what comes off as a hybrid between accusing OP of being stupid, and a failed effort at a mic drop.
OP is back with a classic straw man accusation . . . But is that the right term? I mean, our school was a good school, but isn’t that one of those things people use improperly all the time on the internet’s? Eh, I’m going with OP, she always knew a lot of weird words and stuff, nose always in something by a Bronte, taking those fancy AP classes.
WAIT! WHAT IS THIS? I SEE A NEW ADDITION! I MUST KNOW WHO THIS IS!
Chill boo boo, one sec.
Put your hands together folks for this week’s special guest . . . Advanced Placement History teacher to both of our regular stars, and one of the coolest human beings ever . . . drumroll please for Ms. Kickass-Social justice: MKSJ is they type of gal with multiple graduate degrees who prefers Howard Zinn to standard textbooks, and introduces students to such exciting things as the fact that Feminism is cool, you’ve been lied to all your lives about this country, and hummus which was just weirdo hippie food back in the 90’s.
The crowd rises to its feet, will OP be humiliated by a grammatical misstep? Could OP really have it right, thus placing the final nail in CZFD’s coffin full of patriarchy.
IT IS THE CORTECT USE. THE CROWD GOES WILD. OP WINS AGAIN!
MKSJ makes her own views clear, even twisting the knife a little, declaring that OP’s Facebook badassery has made her entire educational career worth it!
But wait . . .
OP always has to have the last word, so she swoops in with a pinch more fact based, rational wisdom, stands up for womankind, and BOOM . . . MIC DROP.
Peace out homie.
I might have to start sharing all of these interactions.
