What Do You Think of Popular-Type Women?

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We all project are shortcomings onto a vague Other from time to time. I will not state an opinion as to whether Sophist is projecting anything onto these women.

Actually, I wear flip-flops very rarely (because I love socks), I have no cell phone (and if I did-- who would I call???), and I hate gum. If I have something in my mouth it is either food or beverage.

Perhaps I dislike them in part because they are SOOO different from me. And also because I feel like I'm a side show while they just stare at me. Maybe also because I have an unfortunate anger toward stupidity and ditziness and I associate this type of person with that. (Not saying it is either a good nor accurate association, but one I make nonetheless.)

Oh god, the flip-flop fanatics. Even in winter. I don't see how these chicks don't wind up getting frostbite. I'm about 50% of what you despise; I have a cell phone and an roal fixation so I have gum a lot.

Ever notice the 18-24 year old girls all have the exact same hairstyle- a messy ponytail wadded up in a butterfly clip? The only women with hair shorter than mine in most of my classes are education majors in their thirties. ((They tend to be annoying as well but for different reasons.))

Hehe. How true. They're like cookie-cutter people!! ! All the same...

I don't go to college and haven't, regrettably....I would love to.

Not too many flip flop girls here, but plenty of ditzy ones. I actually have encountered a couple of popular type girls that I did like. One was smart, very outspoken and blunt, very verbal. She was pretty cool, and very nice to me. She defended me when I needed it from other girls. The other one is probably somewhat ditzy, but I like her anyway (so far): she's funny and easy to get along with, and her grandpa is autistic so she is used to my brand of weirdness and even enjoys it.

What I don't like are superficial snobby types, and this is more offensive if they're dull-witted and heavily made up. For me, when a girl has a lot of makeup on, smokes, and acts or actually is stupid/ditzy, the message I get is: SLUT. I have a special and specific abhorrence for any girl who acts as though she's the cat's meow...along with the sorts who read lots of romance novels because no real man is good enough for them!

"Flip Flops" are awesome. I wear them all summer and half of winter, too.

I don't see what's wrong with doing your hair a certain way, either.

This thread is just as bad as trashing anyone that's different, I mean I don't really care if you comment on their personalities because they're sh*t, but about their clothes and hair?

That's just as bad as making fun of an aspie for the way they dress.

Whats wrong with messy ponytails?

However, there is an uncanny coincidence that quite a few girls who look like this have personality characteristics which get on my nerves.

It is definitely a generalization, but it hasn't come out of nowhere. And many of these girls that I've met are not helping to dispell the stereotype.

Are flip flops like thongs? I have to wear open toed shoes because closed in shoes make my feet feel like they're suffocating and it is almost like a physical pain (the sensory issues coming in).

Chewing gum can make one look a bit like a cow chewing its cud.

The kind of girls/women who have annoyed me the most since I was a teenager are the tarty ones. In some strange, undefinable way, they are seen as a threat.

From what I understand, flip flops are the same thing as thongs (Thong sandals, that is!)

Now that I'm out of college and working full-time, thankfully I don't see many of the ditzy type people described in this thread. I share an office with one, but that's another story for another day.

To clarify, there's nothing "wrong" with the ponytail thing, or the flip-flop thing (save for aforementioned possibility of frostbite). It's just a bizarre overwhelming trend.

EDIT: Not even a trend nessessarily with a type of person, it just seems like I'm usually the only female my age in most of my classes who does not have this hairstyle or wear flip flops. So, again, nothing wrong with it, I'm just bizarre, and probably feel excluded, etc. etc. AND WISH MY HAIR WOULD GROW FASTER

The characteristics these people are referring to, such as the hair, are not inherently ditzy, slu*ty, or any of the other terms. It's because these nasty girls are so obsessed with fashion, they go straight for the latest trends without a second thought. So all these girls, who are horrible inside, tend to look the same because they can only be popular by being fashionable. So they all adopt these styles (which they probably laughed at in disgust a week or a month ago) to make themselves hip, which in turn makes them social.

I wonder how many of these types of girls are actually confronted by others about their personality or bad habits (such as verbal/physical abuse). And about that, what sort of physical abuse do they do? I know there were a few of these girls at school, but I never saw any physical abuse happen.

ps... talking about latest trends, I read the Sunday Mail last week, and I found out that brand names T-shirts are the new thing and selling for upto $300!! That's 3 weeks pay for me! I think I'll stick to my $10 Target T-shirt, thanks... Maybe print a cheap Rolls Royce logo on it and below it, 'Cost: $15!!'

Of course, your personality has never gotten on anyone's nerves before. What if I met a woman who always wore long pants, vests, and short-cropped hair and she had a horrible personality? Let's say she was utterly self-centered, inflexible, narrow minded, contemptuous, judgmental, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, disagreeable, overanxious, and self-limiting? Would it be wrong to conclude you, given you dress like such a woman, would behave like her too? What if I met several such women who had similar personality flaws? Am I to conclude you have some narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder before having heard you speak a complete sentence?

How come many of these popular-type women I've met have been friendly and sympathetic more than the bad-attitude ones? Am I to conclude it is the stereotypes you hold against them that keep you from treating them just like normal human beings? If you were among your "own kind," would you make so many assumptions about them? Is there even such a thing as your "own kind"? I'm not completely sure it's not all in your head or at least not mostly in your head.

I could be wrong and my subtlety meter could be off, but are you insulting me?

If so, please PM it to me so you don't get a warning on here and we can have a little more open communication.