"Girlies"

MelindaHayes

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of these airhead type "girlies" that seem to be everywhere these days.

They pride themselves on being dumb, "because we are girlies". They are endlessly texting and talking like idiots into their mobile phones.

Most seem to be daddy's girls, little princesses. What happened to women having some respect for eachother and other people.

Has the "ME" generation reached such a degraded state?

allabouteve

MelindaHayes wrote: »

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of these airhead type "girlies" that seem to be everywhere these days.

They pride themselves on being dumb, "because we are girlies". They are endlessly texting and talking like idiots into their mobile phones.

Most seem to be daddy's girls, little princesses. What happened to women having some respect for eachother and other people.

Has the "ME" generation reached such a degraded state?

Lots of young girls chat on the phone and text constantly, not because they're dumb, but because they're young. If they're still little girls, you can hardly expect them to behave in a more mature way.

Remember when you were a teenager and got enthusiastic about the smallest things? Its normal.

So firstly, are we talking about Little Princesses and Daddies Girls, or are we talking about women, and the respect that adulthood might command?

Dlite

allabouteve wrote: »

Remember when you were a teenager and got enthusiastic about the smallest things? Its normal.quote]

Yes, like shell suits and Ascot runners

I don't think this has anything to do with having respect for oneself.

Salome

Personally, I've noticed that teenage girls are identical these days - poker straight blonde hair, maybe with extensions, skinny jeans and those flat ballet shoes. There's no individuals.

And like, I rilllly rillllly seriously hate, like, all these flossies like, who say, like a lot, like what's that all about?

Elle Victorine

No there has always been this facet to the female personality just some are more girly than others like some guys are more manly.

Personally I avoid girly girls like the ****in plague since I was in primary school and I have been quite content to do so. Not that I don't have any respect for them or think they're stupid or anything I just don't have anything in common with them.


And I don't agree that they behave like airheads..I've known a few that were airheads but they were airheads when they were tomboys too you know? Some people are just idiots despite whether they're girly girls or not. I also don't think it's an issue with a lack of self respect but I do get what you mean/where you're coming from.

Jesus Wept

tbh.

Blush_01

I agree The-Rigger.

We all have lovely bottoms.

LadyE

MelindaHayes wrote: »

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of these airhead type "girlies" that seem to be everywhere these days.

They pride themselves on being dumb, "because we are girlies". They are endlessly texting and talking like idiots into their mobile phones.

Most seem to be daddy's girls, little princesses. What happened to women having some respect for eachother and other people.

Has the "ME" generation reached such a degraded state?

So now girls arnt allowed to talk or text on their phones, or have a good relation with their father...in case they are labelled as dumb or not having respect for each other?

This is silly, wtf is the bitching for for normal things?

Yep, I do talk on the phone and text and have a good relationship with my father...shoot me...soon...for the good of the nation:rolleyes:

pookie82

I think maybe the OP may be referring to comments like I heard not so long ago on the dart one morning after a gaggle of screaming girls got on at Castleknock. After much hair flicking and screeching one of them mentioned that she heard about some Indian disaster that was like, really bad and stuff, the night before (in reference to the Mumbai attacks which at this stage had happened about 6 weeks beforehand) and when asked where she heard this shocking and breaking news, with much oooohs and aaahs and OMGs she muttered something about walking past the telly when the news happened to be on. Queue massive chorus of "OOOOOOOH my god the news is like SOOOOOOOOO BORinggggggggg!!!!!!! WHy watch the news when you could watch like, the Simpsons or something!!!"

AHHHHHHHHHHHH HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [for twenty minutes].

Possibly.

CorkLady1983

my favourites are the yummy drummys, ugg boots, fake tan and "just out of bed" tossled hair that they spent 2 hours messing up and the layers of benefit makeup they wear.... think they also now sport Abercrombie and Fitch/Hollister gear...(those two brands used to be decent until they started wearing them)....

agree with OP, never understood girls like that, think they are just morons...

Rozabeez

Super, yet another thread for bitching about people we don't bother to get to know and defending our gender due to a stereotype.

pookie82

Rozabeez wrote: »

Super, yet another thread for bitching about people we don't bother to get to know and defending our gender due to a stereotype.

When I see a reason to defend my gender, I will. My above example does not make me want to. Nor do I need to get to know these people to realise that they are vacuous idiots who bring the entire female sex down.

Just because we share the possession of a vagina does not mean I need to stick up for them in any way.

GirlInterrupted

pookie82 wrote: »

When I see a reason to defend my gender, I will. My above example does not make me want to. Nor do I need to get to know these people to realise that they are vacuous idiots who bring the entire female sex down.

Just because we share the possession of a vagina does not mean I need to stick up for them in any way.

They don't bring me down.

Teenagers have their own way of dressing and speaking, and it changes with every new batch. Most of the posters complaining here of certain 'looks' and mannerisms probably had their own that were common to their group of friends when they were a similar age.

I wouldn't assume a girl is a vacuous idiot because she laughs at a bad joke or styles her hair similarly to her friends.

They'll grow up and roll their eyes at what they wore, and how they used to think. Just like most of us did/will.

pookie82

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

They don't bring me down.

Teenagers have their own way of dressing and speaking, and it changes with every new batch. Most of the posters complaining here of certain 'looks' and mannerisms probably had their own that were common to their group of friends when they were a similar age.

I wouldn't assume a girl is a vacuous idiot because she laughs at a bad joke or styles her hair similarly to her friends.

They'll grow up and roll their eyes at what they wore, and how they used to think. Just like most of us did/will.

If you don't feel that they bring you down then fair enough. But I do. And I shouldn't feel like I can't say so because we're all female and should somehow support each other regardless.

These girls were much closer to 20 than 15 by the way. High time to grow up. The OP mentioned nothing about teenagers.

She Devil

I'm a girlie girl, i love all things girlie and i love being a girl.

It doesn't make me dumb, nor does it make my friends identical to me. Infact i don't think any of my friends are like the next.

I'm also a daddies girl, infact he calls me his princess.

I am not loaded, nor do i pretend to be. I support myself, I love clothes, I like shoes, love uggs, and do don those ballet type shoes, I can't afford handbags hmmm could it be that I like todays current fashion? Or could it be that i am an idiot?

I just don't understand how anyone can pick on a group of people and decide they are all like that?

OH OH OH and im not a teenager ... I am in my late 20's

GirlInterrupted

She Devil wrote: »

I'm a girlie girl, i love all things girlie and i love being a girl.

I would probably be similar.:)

Lately it seems among some women, that there's some sort of stigma attached to enjoying particularly 'feminine' things, or aspects of one's character. Its almost become embarrassing to admit that I like pink or wear dresses!

I've especially noticed how the term girly is being used by some as a substitute for 'stupid, empty and shallow'. It seems to have become a derogatory term.

pookie82

She Devil wrote: »

I just don't understand how anyone can pick on a group of people and decide they are all like that?

OH OH OH and im not a teenager ... I am in my late 20's

Who's "they"? Who said "they" were all like that?

GirlInterrupted

pookie82 wrote: »

Who's "they"? Who said "they" were all like that?

Lets see...

pookie82 wrote: »

When I see a reason to defend my gender, I will. My above example does not make me want to. Nor do I need to get to know these people to realise that they are vacuous idiots who bring the entire female sex down.

Just because we share the possession of a vagina does not mean I need to stick up for them in any way.

Gosh.
Seems like it was you.

bnagrrl

pookie82 wrote: »

I think maybe the OP may be referring to comments like I heard not so long ago on the dart one morning after a gaggle of screaming girls got on at Castleknock. After much hair flicking and screeching one of them mentioned that she heard about some Indian disaster that was like, really bad and stuff, the night before (in reference to the Mumbai attacks which at this stage had happened about 6 weeks beforehand) and when asked where she heard this shocking and breaking news, with much oooohs and aaahs and OMGs she muttered something about walking past the telly when the news happened to be on. Queue massive chorus of "OOOOOOOH my god the news is like SOOOOOOOOO BORinggggggggg!!!!!!! WHy watch the news when you could watch like, the Simpsons or something!!!"

AHHHHHHHHHHHH HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [for twenty minutes].

Possibly.

Possibly? So is the above story a complete fabrication or did any part of it actually happen?

Btw, the DART doesn't go to Castleknock.

4zn76tysfajdxp

bnagrrl wrote: »

Possibly? So is the above story a complete fabrication or did any part of it actually happen?

The attacks in Mumbai did, yes.

pookie82

bnagrrl wrote: »

Possibly? So is the above story a complete fabrication or did any part of it actually happen?

Btw, the DART doesn't go to Castleknock.

No, unfortunately it actually happened. The possibly at the end was referring to the fact that maybe the OP was referring to this type of behaviour.

You're right, I meant to say the commuter train. This doesn't blow my entire story out of the water though.

pookie82

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Lets see...



Gosh.
Seems like it was you.

What so the "they" refers to the group of girls I was talking about? Considering they all partook of the conversation ya, I do assume they're all like that. No evidence to the contrary whatsoever.

It amuses me that Rosabeez came on here rolling her eyes at yet another bitchy thread and the girls who thanked her are now.... oooops, using the first chance they get to be, "gosh", bitchy.

You're not exactly forwarding the sex there ladies.

pookie82

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I've especially noticed how the term girly is being used by some as a substitute for 'stupid, empty and shallow'. It seems to have become a derogatory term.

You're right, the term "girly" has become derogatory. I think it's because the media interpretation of being a girly girl now consists of buying shoes in large quantities, loving pink things, (like you say you're embarrassed to admit to doing) and generally being image obsessed. There's nothing of substance about their apparent concerns or interests. Just watch the adds on tv or more importantly, listen to the ones on the radio, like the recent airline one where the male voice advertising the low fairs is drowned out every now and again by the female voice moaning "shopping" in ecstasy, at the thoughts of getting to shop. There's another add on the radio promoting some sandwich ingredient, where the women bring their own lunches to work, adding ham, cheese bread and..... a healthy dollip of "GOSSIP!!!!" queue much "girly" giggling and excitment as they go off to lunch to tear their colleagues to shreds.

All of these traits of being obsessed with consumerism and material possessions and fickle conversation as opposed to being concerned about what's actually going on in the world is now considered "girly". And therefore it's taken on an air of idiocy and unaccountability.

Plug-me-in

Ok so liking a certain colour makes someone instantly become a gossipy bitchy person who is obsessed with themselves and their image??


I consider myself a "Girly-girl" purely because I like to take pride in my appearance, wear fashionable clothes and be feminine in general. This does not mean I don't have two brain cells to rub together, it does not mean I sit around at lunch and gossip about everyone who walks past, it does not mean I find the news boring, and celebrity gossip certainly does not fill me with excitement.



Ugg-wearing-hollister-clad-fake-tan girls? You want to generalise them all to be bimbo's with nothing better to do than mess with their "hurr"? Well, I have a considerable number of them in my college course, and I can tell you, they're going to turn out to be the best future doctors this country will ever see.


Who-ever doesn't want to take pride in our gender purely because of these "Girly-girls" perhaps you should take another look around at some of the women on the street, complete opposites of "Girly-girls", knocking back bottes of vodka in public places, no regards to their image, hygeine or self-respect and THEN maybe you're lack of pride might be for other reasons.


Anyway, I don't know how any woman can lack pride in our gender when women throughout history have worked so hard to make life what it is for most of us now, and women will continue to work relentlessly, even if they do happen to do it in a pink Chanel dress.

gwhiz

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

They don't bring me down.

Teenagers have their own way of dressing and speaking, and it changes with every new batch. Most of the posters complaining here of certain 'looks' and mannerisms probably had their own that were common to their group of friends when they were a similar age.

I wouldn't assume a girl is a vacuous idiot because she laughs at a bad joke or styles her hair similarly to her friends.

They'll grow up and roll their eyes at what they wore, and how they used to think. Just like most of us did/will.

HERE HERE !! Totally agree with you... I have a 17 year old daughter (I was very very young when I had her so im not that old.. ha ha). She has the blond hair, extensions, ballet shoes skinny jeans blah blah as do all her friends... they are not doing anyone any harm so I really dont know what the f*ck this thread is all about. We were all young and immature once. In a few years time they will look back at the photos and say "what the hell was I thinking of"

pookie82

gwhiz wrote: »

HERE HERE !! Totally agree with you... I have a 17 year old daughter (I was very very young when I had her so im not that old.. ha ha). She has the blond hair, extensions, ballet shoes skinny jeans blah blah as do all her friends... they are not doing anyone any harm so I really dont know what the f*ck this thread is all about. We were all young and immature once. In a few years time they will look back at the photos and say "what the hell was I thinking of"

That may be the case, but why has this thread turned into a defence of teenagers? Where in the OP was age mentioned? Who said anything about being young and foolish?

Tinchy

pookie82 wrote: »

That may be the case, but why has this thread turned into a defence of teenagers? Where in the OP was age mentioned? Who said anything about being young and foolish?

the whole thread hasn't turned into a defence of teenagers, the poster above was just talking about her daughter.

the OP is oviously not talking about women in their 30s/40s/50s either.

pookie82

Plug-me-in wrote: »

Anyway, I don't know how any woman can lack pride in our gender when women throughout history have worked so hard to make life what it is for most of us now, and women will continue to work relentlessly, even if they do happen to do it in a pink Chanel dress.

Some women, like me for example, lack pride in their gender for various reasons. You mention women throughout history working so hard to make our lives what they are now.

And what have some women done with that lifestyle so hard fought for? What have they become? Sex and the city watching shoe obsessed people who engage in mindless consumerism, buying magazines in their millions which tell them they're too fat/too thin. Is this what our ancestors envisaged, do you think? A sex predominantly obsessed with material fashion and celebrity? None of the shallow celebrity magazines are aimed at men.

It might make you proud but it doesn't make me proud. Clear difference of opinion.

pookie82

Tinchy wrote: »

the whole thread hasn't turned into a defence of teenagers, the poster above was just talking about her daughter.

the OP is oviously not talking about women in their 30s/40s/50s either.

When GirlInterrupted addressed my comment first she automatically mentioned teenagers too. I'm not being age specific and never was.

Plug-me-in

pookie82 wrote: »

And what have some women done with that lifestyle so hard fought for? What have they become? Sex and the city watching shoe obsessed people who engage in mindless consumerism, buying magazines in their millions which tell them they're too fat/too thin. Is this what our ancestors envisaged, do you think? A sex predominantly obsessed with material fashion and celebrity? None of the shallow celebrity magazines are aimed at men.

Some being the operative word.


And please don't put words in my mouth, I never stated that what I've just quoted makes me proud.

Tinchy

pookie82 wrote: »

Some women, like me for example, lack pride in their gender for various reasons. You mention women throughout history working so hard to make our lives what they are now.

And what have some women done with that lifestyle so hard fought for? What have they become? Sex and the city watching shoe obsessed people who engage in mindless consumerism, buying magazines in their millions which tell them they're too fat/too thin. Is this what our ancestors envisaged, do you think? A sex predominantly obsessed with material fashion and celebrity? None of the shallow celebrity magazines are aimed at men.

It might make you proud but it doesn't make me proud. Clear difference of opinion.

you lack pride in all females jus because SOME women like buying shoes and magazines?

my best friend is one of the smartest people i know and has a good job yet she buys several mags a week, likes 'girlie' things like shopping for shoes etc but also watches the news and knows whats going on with regards politics/economic climate etc(everything that isn't considered 'girlie').
just because a woman likes these things doesn't mean they are stupid.

you simply cant judge someone(andmost of the entire female gender) on what they buy/read etc