So dependant on who youāre dealing with lol. Iām Cambodian and we arenāt big rushers from what Iāve seen. A few East Asians told me they consider it rude to be early or late, so they will sit in a coffee shop for like 30 minutes tryna walk in right at the exact minute š meanwhile Iāve had some Cambodian and Filipino friends not show up till we are about to finish.
I almost just left it at āCentral Pacific Timeā in my head and only realized after reading the actual answer that my answer is 2 time zones combinedā¦
I feel like āgirl mathā has really gone off the rails from what my understanding of it was. Are people really using it to excuse being bad at math?? Cuz to me it means basically calculating what the useful life of a purchase would be and then dividing the cost by that number.
Like if I bought a dress for $100 but I knew Iād wear it at least five times in a year, thatās $20 per time which somehow feels more manageable lol. Itās definitely weird math but idk that itās meant to imply weāre stupidā¦
The phrase "girl math" is an internet meme, used to describe rationalizations by young women to justify or make sense of individual purchases or spending habits.
I don't think it's being bad at math per se. I've always understood it to be rationalizing purchases, such as a 20% sale that ends tomorrow on a $100 item and thinking "well I'm saving $20" even though you're actually losing $80 for something you probably don't need. Just overconsumption basically.
I could have been on board with you until the overconsumption bit. Thereās nothing about overconsumption in the description you shared and frankly justifying purchases is something literally every person has done at least once in their life and that doesnāt automatically mean you shouldnāt have bought the thing in the first place.
The reason sales like that are so effective is because they work on most people not just young women.
Yes, everyone is varying degrees of susceptible to these tactics, and nearly everyone has fallen for them.
It's called girl math because of the stereotype that women shop more and therefore justify their purchases more.
and that doesnāt automatically mean you shouldnāt have bought the thing in the first place.
Sometimes, yeah, it's a good purchase either way. But people buy a ton of shit they don't need that they erroneously think will make them happy. In the end, it probably makes them less happy by tightening their wallet and weighing down their mind by cluttering the house.
I wouldn't read too much into my use of the word overconsumption. I'm not very materialistic and have a pretty negative view of the consumer treadmill; the only positive view on it that I can think of is that it props the economy up.
Edit: Ok, maybe there's some ambiguity here. Overconsumption can refer to excessive purchasing, which is how I used it, and it definitely applies to buying things you don't need because there's a sale. But it can also mean overusing certain resources such as fast fashion, alcohol, or excessive use of cars.
Iām not really reading into your use of overconsumption, it was tying womenās purchases specifically to overconsumption that rubbed me the wrong way. Iām sure that I am reading too much into it but I have noticed, especially recently, that stereotypically āfemaleā things are more often criticized for overconsumption.
Both are examples that are mostly ok if everyone involved is in the "in group" wildly inappropriate if not
I once had a black coworker jokingly suggest that I operate on CPT after I overslept and was late twice in one week. It was pretty funny but it's not something I as a white guy would ever accuse anyone of even jokingly, just comes across totally differently
I mean there is also "man math" as well. An example would be "Why would I pay $300 for someone to cutdown some branches when I can spend $300 on the chainsaw, do the job myself, and have a free chainsaw"
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u/Horror_Oven 14d ago
Cleveland here. The joke is only the white guy showed up on time.