I used to get that a lot when I still lived in Michigan
I think you are a victim of what is known as the "Lobsters-In-A-Pot" syndrome.
Susan Hyatt wrote:
When lobsters get tossed into a pot of boiling water, and one brave lobster tries to climb up the walls to sweet freedom…
Do you know what the other lobsters do?
They grab their friend and claw her back into the pot of boiling death-water.
“No way are you getting outta here. You’re staying right here with us.”
I would like to think that human beings are slightly more “evolved” than bright red crustaceans, but the truth is… sometimes? We all behave like sea-bugs in a pot of boiling water.
We see a woman demanding a higher salary and say, “Who does she think she is?”
We see a woman celebrating her body and sharing bikini pics on Facebook and think, “What an attention-whore. Slut.”
We see a woman taking big, brave steps to get her business off the ground, and we’ve just GOT to knock her down a peg. “You realize that 8 out of 10 business fail in the first 18 months, right? What’s your back-up plan?”
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13 Apr 2021, 1:35 pm
