gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem
girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor
Jokes can normalize things that you find unacceptable or annoying very, very easily. If you and your friends consistently joke about girlmath and girlmoney when you spend money on something unwise or irresponsible, it'll eventually just become a thing you say while spending money on something unwise or irresponsible. It'll stop being a joke.
Eventually, it might something you say to JUSTIFY spending money on something unwise or irresponsible. You're just a girl, you can't be expected to do anything more than girlmath, people shouldn't bug you about what you spend money on. If that happens, you'll have accepted the absurd logic that was supposed to make the joke funny as regular logic. On some level, you'll have accepted the idea that you are intellectually inferior due to your gender.
Be very fucking careful with the ideas behind the things you joke about.
