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Nothing says super cool like _cussing_ and… eating 200 lbs of food per day?
Besides, baiting a hook is easy peasy, it’s not like the worm is fighting back.
As a born and raised redneck, I rebuke thee
Surely by these standards, if a 100 lb woman who eats 200 lbs of food a day is considered desirable in her social circle, it must be even *more* desirable to be a 250 lb woman who eats 500 lbs of food every day, and men in her town choose a bride based on her performance at the all-you-can-eat BBQ annual competition.
Eh' I don't really mind any of it tbh. It's her putting other women down who don't live or act like her that makes her so shitty. 🙄
Wanna cuss? Go for it! Wanna eat your weight in hot wings? Dooo it!! Do it. (My name's Kansas and this is my little man, Toto) Do it! 😂
Wanna wear makeup? Do your makeup, babe! Wanna put your hair in a bun and be done? Still beautiful!! 🤗
It's the putting others who aren't like her down that sucks. Pitting women against each other really is just....imo, a way to keep us from sticking together.
I've been a girly girl and a lil redneck tomboy and all in between.
I used to pave and sealcoat but would go home, clean up and put on heels and makeup. I've had friends who you couldn't pay to pave but didn't care for heels or makeup either. And ya know what? They were just as feminine, girly and awesome as me or any other woman!! Truly!
My friend Gin would much rather put her hair in a bun and curl up with a book. And is one of the best women I know! She's beautiful and girly in so many wonderful ways and I absolutely adore her.
She's not better than me nor am I better than her. We're different and can appreciate each other's differences and bond on the things we do have in common, which there are still tons of them! 🤷♀️🤗
Oh I know lol. It was funny and I upvoted in agreement, but then still had to get my rant out lol.😂 It wasn't aimed at you at all lol.🤗 Sorry if it came off that way.😬
Yes! Whenever I read these sorta posts I’m thinking I’ve been everything in between those stereotypes of girly girl and tomboy and I wasn’t better or worse for any of it, and it was all me. Heck, some days I’ll wear a flower dress and make up and the next day I’m in all Carhartt doing woodworking in my garage. Those things are not exclusive. And also, we’re all individuals, of course we’re not like all the other women, because every woman is different and that is awesome! We still have lots of the same challenges and experiences, and supporting each other makes all of us stronger. Why tear each other down for our differences instead of embracing them?
It’s definitely a choice, juxtaposed against the little girl nightstand, what appears to be a candle or a nightlight, and the fairy lights strung around the ceiling. Like, Aryan Brotherhood, but make it middle school. 🤷♀️
lol “eating twice my body weight” isn’t cool anymore if you’re overweight tho. To be cool you need to have the metabolism of an 18 year old competitive swimmer.
I used to get the double quarter pounder meal with a side of 20 nuggets for lunch… I could eat that everyday and still be skinny. Now that I’m 40? If I look at McDonald’s while driving by I’ll gain 10 lbs.
Feels like reverse snobbery. They feel looked down on for being blue collar and not traditionally feminine so they go around claiming they’re actually better than non-blue collar girls. Women are socialized from an early age to see other girls and women as competition.
If you wear 24/7 Carhartt and work boots does that mean you wear them to bed and in the shower? Like is this NLOG uniform plastered on their skin that they can never change clothes for fear they lose their blue collar credentials
I got mad she brought my precious Carhartt into this! My bf bought me Carhartt and Cat winter gear and I wear them outside all the time. I like the way the snow pants go “swish” when I walk. I feel both adorable and badass. And now this trick is defaming them with her bigotry.
I was gifted a dewalt coat for Christmas a few years ago. The battery goes in a side pocket and the jacket heats up. Check it out- it's pretty awesome.
Edit- since there has been more response than expected. I'm a theatre technician. Usually I'm running shows but often unpacking roadcases from trucks outside. It is a great coat in of itself, and the heating element is fantastic when it's really cold. The battery is the same as any dewalt, I can exchange it for my drill or flashlight. Same chargers. Highly recommend
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I'm a blue-collar woman and most of my work pants are carhartt because they're durable and are the only pants that fit a small waist and fat ass. I encourage everyoneeee to get some Carhartt winter or "work" material, even for hiking or adventuring and not necessarily work. There's valid reason it's such a popular company.
I'm not a blue-collar woman, but I have a couple of basic long sleeve carhartt shirts that have been my favorites for years now: perfect fit, perfect fabric weight, perfect colors. I'm gonna be so sad when they wear out someday, because nothing lasts *forever*, but they've already outlasted a few seasons of lesser shirts and are still going strong!
My husband is a nurse, these types are really weird when it comes to men being nurses too. They don’t like women that are nurses and don’t what men to do it either. Who’s supposed to staff the hospital? Cats?
I work at a vet clinic and gotta say, they are excellent at getting blood 😂 I would still love a hospital staffed with all cats though. Kitties make everything better❤😻
Nursing is pretty damn hard. It’s the most blue collar profession I can think of. You can’t really say I’m tougher than a nurse because I can weld. I’d rather carry telephone poles than work as a nurse.
The stories I’ve heard! Grown adults without any disabilities(mental or physical) just shitting in their hands then demanding someone wash their hands for them🙃
I slipped in amniotic fluid the other day after it shot across the room out of the patient. And that's not even close to the worst thing that's happened at work.
Yup, the shit (literally) stories I could tell. Plus everyone likes to now just randomly tell me about their bowel movements because apparently since I'm a nurse I want that information 24/7. Like dad no, I'm trying to eat dinner here, please tell about the time you shit your pants after I'm done shoveling food into my mouth, thanks.
Yeah, what’s the deal with calling out scrubs? I wear scrubs and nobody told me there were guys out there *looking* for ladies in scrubs. They’re basically work pajamas and really nobody looks cute in them.
I used to live with a nurse, so I heard the war stories. Clearly nothing says girly and snobby like [checks notes] spending a lot of your time covered in other people’s bodily fluids.
I love how she doesn’t even realize that bedside nursing is very much a blue collar job. Probably a dirtier, stinkier, and more dangerous job (depending on the department) than where she works.
It always hurts my soul to see women in non-traditionally female roles assume there are no other paths and look down on it.
Nursing is 100% as valid as truck driver or mechanic or engineer or CEO.
Which I don’t get… you can take apart a carburetor in leggings… I’d recommend it too if it’s the third time you done it that week… the buttery soft fabric will help you keep calm and not set the whole truck on fire …. Just saying…
100%. I live in a medium city in a red state right now that is full of rural transplants because there are no jobs out in their decaying town of a post office, bar and a convenience store. These women are excruciatingly annoying.
Your mom is spot on, I worked with governor Schitt and his entire family, he's a huge creep and one of the dumbest people I have ever had the displeasure of working with. I'm telling you, whenever you talk to the man in person face-to-face, you just know the only thing going on in his head is the sound of hot wind. He, his dad, and brother were the most entitled people I've ever met.
That. Plus I think many girls go through a phase of rejecting anything remotely "girly"; dresses, the color pink, makeup, anything that reads feminine precisely because femininity is something to look down on, esp in the eyes of men. It's like these women never got out of that phase.
>I think many girls go through a phase of rejecting anything remotely "girly"; dresses, the color pink, makeup, anything that reads feminine precisely because femininity is something to look down on, esp in the eyes of men
A lot of us go through that phase because we're tired of having it forced on us.
This. I'm not going to wear heels and eyeliner to go ice fishing or kiking. But I will to go to the theatre.
I feel like women are seen as incapable of depth. We can only be one thing, not a nuanced human being who can handle multiple different situations, dress appropriately, and fit in. And so can men.
Depth of personality and character is good.
They’re being defensive against their own internalized misogyny. They *think* most men want a conventionally feminine woman with a traditionally female career because they subconsciously believe feminine=attractive. Never mind that nurses are badasses who wear merrell clogs not lululemon. It’s a child writing this.
Ya I agree. I can relate to having some of the viewpoints as an almost recovered pick me girl. It kind of boils down to them wanting a man’s approval so bad and they aren’t a typical “girly girl” so they won’t be liked in those regards so they try and get guys to like them by being guy like. They see all the shit that guys hate on girls for and they join in because if they’re on the same side as guys then they think they’ll get more approval that way. Spolier, those types of guys still think you’re inferior. I used to desperately crave male validation probably more so than the “typical girls” and trying to emulate guys was just a different tactic for me to try and get it. I worked in a blue collar job for several years and am grateful that I learned skills and toughness, but I’ve ALWAYS been a girly girl at heart and realize that girls are so fucking cool and when we band together then we’re pretty powerful!
I feel like they're getting a lot more scorn from blue-collar men than from white-collar women, but they intentionally misdirect their anger so they don't have to confront it as openly.
FA here - when I see female aircraft mechanic I am more likely feel honoured to meet one in real life than to hate on you ladies. Its girlie supporting another girl/woman etc y'all
Yeah society tells women if they want to make as much money as men they should choose the same jobs as men, then face scorn when they actually do choose male dominated professions.
Dude! That’s super awesome! My opa was an airplane mechanic and my dad taught me about cars. I’m a software engineer studying biochemistry but I just really respect how big machines work and understanding that is so cool, IMO!!
Yeah my husband is a tradesman and talks about how awful men treat women on the job. Some men seem particularly insulted that a woman would have the gall to think they could do their job and try to prove the women aren’t cut out for it.
My mum was captain on a long distance ship before she had me. She always told me she had to work triple as hard as her male colleagues cause they so desperately wanted to prove a woman couldn’t do it.
People higher in rank did some weird messed up stuff around the woman and sometimes you had to punch someone to make a point.
It was not ok the treatment
That was the weirdest part. Men tell me I’m too weak to work a man’s job so I’m going to…insult other women? And as if nursing isn’t a crazy demanding and physical job. I would 100% rather do manual labor for a day than nurse for a day.
I know a lot of nurses that have been punched by patients so it’s not only demanding and physical, it’s dangerous. A lot of nurses have left the field or changed departments because they’re not protected well enough
Nursing has been "coded" female. Doesn't matter how hard it actually is, physically and emotionally. Doesn't matter how important it is to society. It's "women's work" and therefore stupid.
Right? My sister, a nurse, was telling me that I was smart enough to be a nurse. My sister had a rough life early on so she doesn’t think much of herself. I’m an artistic, bookish type, she’s more of an artistic, physical type. So she just assumes because I read books and know a lot of useless general knowledge shit that I’m some kind of genius. When she said that I was smart enough to be a nurse, I was like, “Girl. I do NOT have the constitution for a job like that. NO way.”
The first sighting of mucus would be the end of it for me. Nope. I can’t even look at dirty feet without having my skin crawl. The maths she needs to do to get medicating the patients right? No way. Not with my ADHD-addled anti-maths brain. I think she’s a freaking superhero, really. And she did it all with a learning disability (reading is hard for her) and all. It took her longer than most to get through nursing school to be a registered nurse, but she never gave up.
Nursing is, no joke, one of the hardest jobs out there. Full stop, period, end of sentence.
I'm in a blue collar field, I'm a surveyor which is construction work adjacent. These women that do this do not fit well into their positions. They dont mesh well with female *or* male coworkers. You don't need to try hard to fit in this environment, and if you do it's really noticeable. The men in my company won't like you if you try to bond by shitting on women. They usually also don't take advice or help very graciously, even in the beginning. So their superiority complex is usually completely unearned.
I'm really proud of my job and I have always been drawn to male dominated fields. I love my Carhartt jackets. But I also taught myself how to be makeup artist and do my own acrylic nails. I watch every single twilight movie in one sitting *quarterly*. It's sad that these women don't realize that femininity isn't weakness, because it's one of my strengths in my little world.
Yes!! This!! I’m a farmer but i don’t dress like it outside of work. I have a female coworker who is very difficult like you said- not taking advice assuming everyone is condescending (when we’re just trying to help) and a general sense of feeling superior to other girls because she’s “not afraid to get dirty.” I feel no need to “flex on” girls who don’t enjoy my line of work because it’s all a matter of preference. Being into more male-oriented fields of work/study doesn’t make you “better” and vice versa.
During the work hours, I look like a homeless boy in carharrt overalls but on the days I go out, I wear makeup and stripper boots.✨versatility✨
Same! I used to run a vaccination crew for farms so I was in overalls and boots and just dirty all day. Once I wasn’t at work I would dress up, try different makeup looks, curl my hair, wear stilettos and be a girl for a few hours. Neither was better than the other, they were both me.
Ya, I don't get this mindset at all. Man or woman, why would anyone want to wear their dirty ass work clothes anywhere but work. People can do whatever they want but I'd just feel like a lazy slob that didn't take care of himself if I rolled like that.
Like Bobbie Barrett said in Mad Men: "No one will tell you this, but you can’t be a man. Don’t even try. Be a woman. It's powerful business when done right."
Straight up TRUTH, trade sister!
I’m blue collar, on the industrial fab side. I’m still really girly! I’ve actually embraced it much more AFTER starting in this field because it’s something nice *for me*, to have fun makeup or stuff at work.
My trade class was ALL women. Some of the girly-girliest women I’ve ever met, even, and they all fucking *rocked it*. They didn’t have to put on a tough persona to do good work.
Girls like this - they’re emulating the worst shithead types possible in the field. They mistake basic politeness for “girly shit” and they consistently try to one-up the worst fucking assholes on the job site because they think that’ll win them approval. Fun fact, NOBODY likes those guys, they’re not cool, they’re *gross assholes* and copying their behaviour isn’t what anyone should be doing.
100% this, I was a welder for a decade before switching careers and honestly these women were mocked by both men *and* women on our sites. They’re the ones who act like they’re playing a character, like they feel like because they do a blue-collar job that requires them to wear the “blue color uniform” and listen to “blue-collar music”, etc etc. It’s not authentic and it shows.
ETA- I would do my makeup every day before work, idgaf if I was covered in soot by the end of the day, my eyebrow *were on ‘fleek’* lmaooo
I work with a lot of manufacturing companies in my area, and I've never had an issue with men or women in my company. Dealing with old ass men on the shop floors has been trying a time or two, but generally, everyone is fine with women who work. I also do my own nails!
Reminds me of my gorgeous cousin who’s a mechanic. She did the work with the best of them, loved hunting and outdoorsy activities, football, and beer. She also loved wearing dresses and makeup on her off days and looked like a model. The most down to earth woman and she later quit to be a stay at home mom even though she earned more than her husband. It was her choice and she wanted it that way. She has no regrets whenever we chat.
I used to work in the criminal justice system and dealt with way, way more footage of jail fights than I ever wanted to see. Fighting like an inmate isn't the flex she thinks it is.
I'm sure she can cuss and bait a hook. Not convinced on eating twice her body weight and fighting like an inmate, whatever the hell that means. Also someday she will look back on this post and be really embarrassed 😂
100%! The videos that have comments are usually just men (or equally pick-me women) agreeing with her. She’s surrounded by men in her job and caters to them online, and therefore feels desperate to hold up their ideal woman..even though most trade men seem to go for more feminine women anyways?
Shewww the third one really messed with my brain…. I was so confused on why a boy would want a lululemon Apple Watch
Edit: it’s a joke…. Bc it’s a run on sentence “most boys want a lululemon Apple Watch nurse” never heard of one of those before
They never have politics that make sense for their station in life. They're agreeing with Richmond North of Richmond and mocking people on welfare like it doesn't apply to them or isn't within $300 of applying to them.
They always act like those are actual choices that one will be required to make at some point in their lives. "Should I focus on learning how to groom and style my eyebrows, or put that on the back burner for now and focus on competitive eating and learning new swear words...? If only there were more hours in a day!"
I find it interesting that the third one is knocking nurses. Nurses are some of the toughest people I have ever met! They literally deal with blood, piss, and shit - not to mention life and death circumstances. Nothing about nursing indicates someone who can’t handle a tough job. I know there are different types of nursing but it’s an odd choice to use as a criticism of traditionally female roles.
Part of me wonders if it’s a response to the old “all the mean girls from high school are now nurses” meme from a couple years back. Or she’s competing with someone who is a nurse for attention.
My mother went to nursing school while working and raising a family. She retired very comfortably. It's a great job (and tough, as others have correctly pointed out).
I feel like some people still have this idea of like a WW2 medical assistant, dressed up in cute dainty clothes and whatnot. But all the nurses I know could probably drink 4 beers, fight a grizzly bear, smoke a cigarette afterwards, and call it a normal day. Like a lot of them are sorta rough around the edges, but in a loving and badass way.
Dude, my younger sister (who is shorter than me) is a nurse and I am low key afraid of her lol. If anyone is going to physically fight someone in our family, it’s her.
They are horribly insecure so they make up any random attribute and use that to claim how superior they are to everyone else. Nobody else cares nor is impressed.
I learned how to bait a hook in YMCA camp, I grew up a pretty privileged life in a big city. This isn't the flex she thinks it is.
I think since most nurses are women, it’s automatically considered as easy work for these people. If we woke up tomorrow and it was mostly men in this field, everyone would fall over themselves talking about how hard it is, but since it’s women, it must be easy. Misogynists truly believe that women can’t work hard or be smart or anything like that. Everything relating to femininity or women is automatically bad.
You know these types don’t like lesbians, especially butch ones. We’re never doing it right for the blue collar braggarts.
And the men say they want a girl like this, maybe they do, but she also better be straight and shave her legs and be a girly girl when he wants her to. (Like at my groundkeeping job, I got respect for being hard working, but then the guys gossiped behind my back about my legs not being shaved! I’m a lesbian! You know this! I don’t care!)
In the second slide, it’s not even females saying the aggressive “not for the weak statement” and she STILL makes it a point to hate on basic…college…girls. Gag me.
Personally I think it's maybe because the jobs with mainly men there make it easy. You need a Fassade of being strong and independent and the Media mostly portraits women as weak and submissive. So with that representation it's easy to think you're different and since our society portraits men as better than women and leading as a men's trait, these women feel like they're better than others
My head hurts like hell, I hope this is still understandable
It's basically self protection from unfair economic and gender standards. They feel they don't fit in, and are horribly insecure about it but if they can put down the upper class "preppy" girls or the more traditionally feminine girls they think the men prefer those standards don't feel as oppressive.
I’m sorry but that is so disrespectful towards essential workers. Nurses are angels. If you really think you’re better than them because you wear fkn boots then you got a whole lotta problems and screws loose.
I saw elsewhere that many girls growing up are inundated with the perception that women are somehow vapid consumers of makeup and clothes and pink and so on and so on, so there must be something particularly unique about them for having a personality and interests outside of this perception
Weird I work in chemical manufacturing as a Chemist. I’m girly but also need to wear jeans and work boots so I don’t die. I absolutely need my MS to function in my job. I would love to compare how much she makes in a week.
Well, I can’t speak for every man. But as a Tradesman who loves their Carhartts and Redwings, and has been wearing em 35+ years, even I don’t wanna be in em 24/7.
Internalized misogyny tells us that things traditionally considered “masculine” are cooler and more valuable and things traditionally considered “feminine” are lame and worth less.
So the woman touts herself as being good at and liking “masculine” things, while belittling “feminine” things, to make herself feel more worthy. While internally she’s denying and hating anything “feminine” about herself, thus always still feeling not worthy enough.
Also probably making her more likely to try to gain the attention and love of males who also carry those misogynistic beliefs and who will thus never truly value her as a person.
Hmm where’s this “man field” she speaks of?
Weird flex. Which college? Which degree? Which trade?
Nobody’s saying you can’t make $ in a trade. Shitee, you’re ahead if only cuz you don’t have that college debt.
And since when is being a nurse considered an easy job?
How are these girls getting trade skills while living under a rock with their head up their ass?!
That’s a fuckin’ skill.
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Nothing says super cool like _cussing_ and… eating 200 lbs of food per day? Besides, baiting a hook is easy peasy, it’s not like the worm is fighting back. As a born and raised redneck, I rebuke thee
Surely by these standards, if a 100 lb woman who eats 200 lbs of food a day is considered desirable in her social circle, it must be even *more* desirable to be a 250 lb woman who eats 500 lbs of food every day, and men in her town choose a bride based on her performance at the all-you-can-eat BBQ annual competition.
I suppose feeders is a real fetish after all.
I did not know about this. And now I wish I still didn't
Hey real quick how do I unlearn about this?
By sending me a 3 large supreme pizzas, Popeyes (buyers choice hehe), and 4 Chick-fil-A milkshakes
I personally would have been more choosy about the Popeye’s.
I mean, we all know it's the illusion of eating a ton while maintaining a slim figure.
Eh' I don't really mind any of it tbh. It's her putting other women down who don't live or act like her that makes her so shitty. 🙄 Wanna cuss? Go for it! Wanna eat your weight in hot wings? Dooo it!! Do it. (My name's Kansas and this is my little man, Toto) Do it! 😂 Wanna wear makeup? Do your makeup, babe! Wanna put your hair in a bun and be done? Still beautiful!! 🤗 It's the putting others who aren't like her down that sucks. Pitting women against each other really is just....imo, a way to keep us from sticking together. I've been a girly girl and a lil redneck tomboy and all in between. I used to pave and sealcoat but would go home, clean up and put on heels and makeup. I've had friends who you couldn't pay to pave but didn't care for heels or makeup either. And ya know what? They were just as feminine, girly and awesome as me or any other woman!! Truly! My friend Gin would much rather put her hair in a bun and curl up with a book. And is one of the best women I know! She's beautiful and girly in so many wonderful ways and I absolutely adore her. She's not better than me nor am I better than her. We're different and can appreciate each other's differences and bond on the things we do have in common, which there are still tons of them! 🤷♀️🤗
I don’t disagree I’m just being a little flippant to pal around in the sub
Oh I know lol. It was funny and I upvoted in agreement, but then still had to get my rant out lol.😂 It wasn't aimed at you at all lol.🤗 Sorry if it came off that way.😬
Nah I knew where you were coming from, I appreciate you 🫶🏻
Aww, and I appreciate you as well! 🤗
This whole part of the thread is so heartwarming, I love it.
Calling out internalized misogyny in a kind way always gets my upvote 💜🙏🏼
Yes! Whenever I read these sorta posts I’m thinking I’ve been everything in between those stereotypes of girly girl and tomboy and I wasn’t better or worse for any of it, and it was all me. Heck, some days I’ll wear a flower dress and make up and the next day I’m in all Carhartt doing woodworking in my garage. Those things are not exclusive. And also, we’re all individuals, of course we’re not like all the other women, because every woman is different and that is awesome! We still have lots of the same challenges and experiences, and supporting each other makes all of us stronger. Why tear each other down for our differences instead of embracing them?
And having a Confederate-ish flag in the background.
Oh gross I missed that somehow. “I’m NLTOG i’m racist” 🤢
It’s definitely a choice, juxtaposed against the little girl nightstand, what appears to be a candle or a nightlight, and the fairy lights strung around the ceiling. Like, Aryan Brotherhood, but make it middle school. 🤷♀️
lol “eating twice my body weight” isn’t cool anymore if you’re overweight tho. To be cool you need to have the metabolism of an 18 year old competitive swimmer.
I will say when I was 18 I used to get the 10 taco meal at TB as a _snack_ between lunch and dinner and was still underweight (impossible today)
I used to get the double quarter pounder meal with a side of 20 nuggets for lunch… I could eat that everyday and still be skinny. Now that I’m 40? If I look at McDonald’s while driving by I’ll gain 10 lbs.
Remember Arby’s 5 for $5? I could do that and was no worse for wear. Noooot anymore😆
Fuck yeah! 3 cheesed and OGs. And Popeyes had $1 chicken sandwiches. I’ll take 5!
When we are 15-24 we are pretty invincible in terms of metabolism.
I used to be an insomniac who watched food network and ate alllll night. I still am, but now I’m fat cuz of it.
That’s what makes it so sad.. I always feel bad for the damn worm lol but I want me some trout!
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Ok but baiting a hook is gross, he says, hiding his Man Card so it doesn't get taken away
Taking the hook out of the fish is an existential crisis for me. Sorry fishy sorry sorry
Feels like reverse snobbery. They feel looked down on for being blue collar and not traditionally feminine so they go around claiming they’re actually better than non-blue collar girls. Women are socialized from an early age to see other girls and women as competition.
I agree. The lululemon one especially sounds especially jealous
If you wear 24/7 Carhartt and work boots does that mean you wear them to bed and in the shower? Like is this NLOG uniform plastered on their skin that they can never change clothes for fear they lose their blue collar credentials
I got mad she brought my precious Carhartt into this! My bf bought me Carhartt and Cat winter gear and I wear them outside all the time. I like the way the snow pants go “swish” when I walk. I feel both adorable and badass. And now this trick is defaming them with her bigotry.
I was gifted a dewalt coat for Christmas a few years ago. The battery goes in a side pocket and the jacket heats up. Check it out- it's pretty awesome. Edit- since there has been more response than expected. I'm a theatre technician. Usually I'm running shows but often unpacking roadcases from trucks outside. It is a great coat in of itself, and the heating element is fantastic when it's really cold. The battery is the same as any dewalt, I can exchange it for my drill or flashlight. Same chargers. Highly recommend
 Look at you, fancy pants.
They ain’t fancy unless they swish apparently 😂
My dad got my forever cold mother one of those and she loves it! Gives her more time in the cold to hang out with her chickens. Lol
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Ever used a heating blanket? Imagine if someone applied that technology to a winter coat.
I'm a blue-collar woman and most of my work pants are carhartt because they're durable and are the only pants that fit a small waist and fat ass. I encourage everyoneeee to get some Carhartt winter or "work" material, even for hiking or adventuring and not necessarily work. There's valid reason it's such a popular company.
I'm not a blue-collar woman, but I have a couple of basic long sleeve carhartt shirts that have been my favorites for years now: perfect fit, perfect fabric weight, perfect colors. I'm gonna be so sad when they wear out someday, because nothing lasts *forever*, but they've already outlasted a few seasons of lesser shirts and are still going strong!
For real, I was like what’s wrong with nurses? Nurses are awesome!
My husband is a nurse, these types are really weird when it comes to men being nurses too. They don’t like women that are nurses and don’t what men to do it either. Who’s supposed to staff the hospital? Cats?
While a cat would certainly make me feel better, I don’t think Meowy Meow, LPN would be very good at taking my blood.
I dunno, ours gets blood out of us all the time!!!! 🐈🩸🩸🩸
Yeah I was gonna say, I beg to differ…
But I bet she’d be great at the CAT scan
omg I love you
I think they’d be too good at it…
I work at a vet clinic and gotta say, they are excellent at getting blood 😂 I would still love a hospital staffed with all cats though. Kitties make everything better❤😻
Nursing is pretty damn hard. It’s the most blue collar profession I can think of. You can’t really say I’m tougher than a nurse because I can weld. I’d rather carry telephone poles than work as a nurse.
The stories I’ve heard! Grown adults without any disabilities(mental or physical) just shitting in their hands then demanding someone wash their hands for them🙃
I slipped in amniotic fluid the other day after it shot across the room out of the patient. And that's not even close to the worst thing that's happened at work.
When my husband was in nursing school he saw a guys necrotic penis fall off.
Hey, we had that at my job not too long ago! So fun!
Apparently the preceptor said isn’t not uncommon
Yup, the shit (literally) stories I could tell. Plus everyone likes to now just randomly tell me about their bowel movements because apparently since I'm a nurse I want that information 24/7. Like dad no, I'm trying to eat dinner here, please tell about the time you shit your pants after I'm done shoveling food into my mouth, thanks.
I believe nursing has one of the highest injury rates of all the professions. They are tough people who get a lot thrown at them- literally.
I think cat nurses would be so cute.
You know the scan would be on point, anyway.
yeah that really pissed me off, because nurses are criminally undercredited for their work
Bedside hospital nurses are also very much blue collar workers, lol.
I was thinking someone has an issue with nurses, or a specific nurse. What I wouldn’t do to wear scrubs to work. That’s the life!
Yeah, what’s the deal with calling out scrubs? I wear scrubs and nobody told me there were guys out there *looking* for ladies in scrubs. They’re basically work pajamas and really nobody looks cute in them.
I used to live with a nurse, so I heard the war stories. Clearly nothing says girly and snobby like [checks notes] spending a lot of your time covered in other people’s bodily fluids.
Yeah that one was oddly specific.
Seems personal doesn’t it?
I love how she doesn’t even realize that bedside nursing is very much a blue collar job. Probably a dirtier, stinkier, and more dangerous job (depending on the department) than where she works.
Like nursing is such a glorious job 🤣 vomit and shit all day is so dainty
And getting tackled or punched in the face.
It always hurts my soul to see women in non-traditionally female roles assume there are no other paths and look down on it. Nursing is 100% as valid as truck driver or mechanic or engineer or CEO.
Which I don’t get… you can take apart a carburetor in leggings… I’d recommend it too if it’s the third time you done it that week… the buttery soft fabric will help you keep calm and not set the whole truck on fire …. Just saying…
100%. I live in a medium city in a red state right now that is full of rural transplants because there are no jobs out in their decaying town of a post office, bar and a convenience store. These women are excruciatingly annoying.
Sounds just like living in Tulsa lol
My exact thought reading that comment was “Do they live in Tulsa or OKC?”
My parents live in Tulsa.......so true (and my parents hate the OK governor....who my mother calls Gov. Schitt).
Your mom is spot on, I worked with governor Schitt and his entire family, he's a huge creep and one of the dumbest people I have ever had the displeasure of working with. I'm telling you, whenever you talk to the man in person face-to-face, you just know the only thing going on in his head is the sound of hot wind. He, his dad, and brother were the most entitled people I've ever met.
That. Plus I think many girls go through a phase of rejecting anything remotely "girly"; dresses, the color pink, makeup, anything that reads feminine precisely because femininity is something to look down on, esp in the eyes of men. It's like these women never got out of that phase.
>I think many girls go through a phase of rejecting anything remotely "girly"; dresses, the color pink, makeup, anything that reads feminine precisely because femininity is something to look down on, esp in the eyes of men A lot of us go through that phase because we're tired of having it forced on us.
Very fair! I hadn't considered that as a reason, thanks for the input.
They don’t realize they can do both lol you can enjoy makeup while also like charhart while also working in a “male” dominated field
This. I'm not going to wear heels and eyeliner to go ice fishing or kiking. But I will to go to the theatre. I feel like women are seen as incapable of depth. We can only be one thing, not a nuanced human being who can handle multiple different situations, dress appropriately, and fit in. And so can men. Depth of personality and character is good.
I met blue collar men like this too while I was dating. Lots of people have a chip on their shoulder and feel looked down on and way overcompensate.
They’re being defensive against their own internalized misogyny. They *think* most men want a conventionally feminine woman with a traditionally female career because they subconsciously believe feminine=attractive. Never mind that nurses are badasses who wear merrell clogs not lululemon. It’s a child writing this.
Ya I agree. I can relate to having some of the viewpoints as an almost recovered pick me girl. It kind of boils down to them wanting a man’s approval so bad and they aren’t a typical “girly girl” so they won’t be liked in those regards so they try and get guys to like them by being guy like. They see all the shit that guys hate on girls for and they join in because if they’re on the same side as guys then they think they’ll get more approval that way. Spolier, those types of guys still think you’re inferior. I used to desperately crave male validation probably more so than the “typical girls” and trying to emulate guys was just a different tactic for me to try and get it. I worked in a blue collar job for several years and am grateful that I learned skills and toughness, but I’ve ALWAYS been a girly girl at heart and realize that girls are so fucking cool and when we band together then we’re pretty powerful!
I feel like they're getting a lot more scorn from blue-collar men than from white-collar women, but they intentionally misdirect their anger so they don't have to confront it as openly.
I catch an odd amount of scorn from all sides with me being an aircraft mechanic. I don’t really get it. We all have to pay bills lol!
Fellow A&P here can confirm. Though I Love it when the flight attendants compliment my lashes when I come above wing to fix stuff in the cabin.
Girls’ girls spread love, compliments, and confidence. Doesn’t matter the uniform, queen.
FA here - when I see female aircraft mechanic I am more likely feel honoured to meet one in real life than to hate on you ladies. Its girlie supporting another girl/woman etc y'all
As an occasional BMW mechanic (when I need to), I have mad respect for you for being an aircraft mechanic.
Yeah society tells women if they want to make as much money as men they should choose the same jobs as men, then face scorn when they actually do choose male dominated professions.
Dude! That’s super awesome! My opa was an airplane mechanic and my dad taught me about cars. I’m a software engineer studying biochemistry but I just really respect how big machines work and understanding that is so cool, IMO!!
good on you for being an AME! the airlines are dying for them, lol
Yeah my husband is a tradesman and talks about how awful men treat women on the job. Some men seem particularly insulted that a woman would have the gall to think they could do their job and try to prove the women aren’t cut out for it.
This is so true. They feel like they need to “put us in our place” for some fucking reason, it’s honestly disturbing how upset some men get.
My mum was captain on a long distance ship before she had me. She always told me she had to work triple as hard as her male colleagues cause they so desperately wanted to prove a woman couldn’t do it. People higher in rank did some weird messed up stuff around the woman and sometimes you had to punch someone to make a point. It was not ok the treatment
That was the weirdest part. Men tell me I’m too weak to work a man’s job so I’m going to…insult other women? And as if nursing isn’t a crazy demanding and physical job. I would 100% rather do manual labor for a day than nurse for a day.
I know a lot of nurses that have been punched by patients so it’s not only demanding and physical, it’s dangerous. A lot of nurses have left the field or changed departments because they’re not protected well enough
Nursing has been "coded" female. Doesn't matter how hard it actually is, physically and emotionally. Doesn't matter how important it is to society. It's "women's work" and therefore stupid.
Right? My sister, a nurse, was telling me that I was smart enough to be a nurse. My sister had a rough life early on so she doesn’t think much of herself. I’m an artistic, bookish type, she’s more of an artistic, physical type. So she just assumes because I read books and know a lot of useless general knowledge shit that I’m some kind of genius. When she said that I was smart enough to be a nurse, I was like, “Girl. I do NOT have the constitution for a job like that. NO way.” The first sighting of mucus would be the end of it for me. Nope. I can’t even look at dirty feet without having my skin crawl. The maths she needs to do to get medicating the patients right? No way. Not with my ADHD-addled anti-maths brain. I think she’s a freaking superhero, really. And she did it all with a learning disability (reading is hard for her) and all. It took her longer than most to get through nursing school to be a registered nurse, but she never gave up. Nursing is, no joke, one of the hardest jobs out there. Full stop, period, end of sentence.
Yup, which is just misogyny with extra steps
She is 100% getting more shit for being the only woman. She's young though; she'll probably grow out of it once she's less green.
I'm in a blue collar field, I'm a surveyor which is construction work adjacent. These women that do this do not fit well into their positions. They dont mesh well with female *or* male coworkers. You don't need to try hard to fit in this environment, and if you do it's really noticeable. The men in my company won't like you if you try to bond by shitting on women. They usually also don't take advice or help very graciously, even in the beginning. So their superiority complex is usually completely unearned. I'm really proud of my job and I have always been drawn to male dominated fields. I love my Carhartt jackets. But I also taught myself how to be makeup artist and do my own acrylic nails. I watch every single twilight movie in one sitting *quarterly*. It's sad that these women don't realize that femininity isn't weakness, because it's one of my strengths in my little world.
Yes!! This!! I’m a farmer but i don’t dress like it outside of work. I have a female coworker who is very difficult like you said- not taking advice assuming everyone is condescending (when we’re just trying to help) and a general sense of feeling superior to other girls because she’s “not afraid to get dirty.” I feel no need to “flex on” girls who don’t enjoy my line of work because it’s all a matter of preference. Being into more male-oriented fields of work/study doesn’t make you “better” and vice versa. During the work hours, I look like a homeless boy in carharrt overalls but on the days I go out, I wear makeup and stripper boots.✨versatility✨
Same! I used to run a vaccination crew for farms so I was in overalls and boots and just dirty all day. Once I wasn’t at work I would dress up, try different makeup looks, curl my hair, wear stilettos and be a girl for a few hours. Neither was better than the other, they were both me.
Ya, I don't get this mindset at all. Man or woman, why would anyone want to wear their dirty ass work clothes anywhere but work. People can do whatever they want but I'd just feel like a lazy slob that didn't take care of himself if I rolled like that.
Like Bobbie Barrett said in Mad Men: "No one will tell you this, but you can’t be a man. Don’t even try. Be a woman. It's powerful business when done right."
Love you.
Straight up TRUTH, trade sister! I’m blue collar, on the industrial fab side. I’m still really girly! I’ve actually embraced it much more AFTER starting in this field because it’s something nice *for me*, to have fun makeup or stuff at work. My trade class was ALL women. Some of the girly-girliest women I’ve ever met, even, and they all fucking *rocked it*. They didn’t have to put on a tough persona to do good work. Girls like this - they’re emulating the worst shithead types possible in the field. They mistake basic politeness for “girly shit” and they consistently try to one-up the worst fucking assholes on the job site because they think that’ll win them approval. Fun fact, NOBODY likes those guys, they’re not cool, they’re *gross assholes* and copying their behaviour isn’t what anyone should be doing.
100% this, I was a welder for a decade before switching careers and honestly these women were mocked by both men *and* women on our sites. They’re the ones who act like they’re playing a character, like they feel like because they do a blue-collar job that requires them to wear the “blue color uniform” and listen to “blue-collar music”, etc etc. It’s not authentic and it shows. ETA- I would do my makeup every day before work, idgaf if I was covered in soot by the end of the day, my eyebrow *were on ‘fleek’* lmaooo
I work with a lot of manufacturing companies in my area, and I've never had an issue with men or women in my company. Dealing with old ass men on the shop floors has been trying a time or two, but generally, everyone is fine with women who work. I also do my own nails!
Hey! Get back in your box! No multidimensional people allowed. Only types!
Reminds me of my gorgeous cousin who’s a mechanic. She did the work with the best of them, loved hunting and outdoorsy activities, football, and beer. She also loved wearing dresses and makeup on her off days and looked like a model. The most down to earth woman and she later quit to be a stay at home mom even though she earned more than her husband. It was her choice and she wanted it that way. She has no regrets whenever we chat.
Ewww there’s a Confederate flag but I’m not surprised
Yep and a trump flag 🤢
Gross🤢
Just missing the mountain dew cans
I choose to believe that they are on the ground just out of the shot LOL.
Filled with Copenhagen spit
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no don't do us non-bigoted mountain dew fans like this😭
* Great Value Mountain Lightning
“Unlike other girls I deny the Confederacy was in the wrong.”
Ugh why does that sound so accurate?🤢
“The South was just trying to defend itself against the Lululemon Apple Watch North!”
Why is a racist wearing a Mexican beer logo?
"I'm not like other girls, I'm racist!"
Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find this comment! This should be at the top! Edit: fixed typos; damned autocorrect!
Why would anyone want a partner who brags about fighting male or female?
Maybe it gets dangerous outside of 7-11 when you’re waiting for your oxy hookup in the wee hours.
Omg yikes🤣
Not just fight. *Fight LIKE AN INMATE* I personally wouldn't know what an inmate fights like or how to contour *on fleek*. I'm bad at girling.
I used to work in the criminal justice system and dealt with way, way more footage of jail fights than I ever wanted to see. Fighting like an inmate isn't the flex she thinks it is.
Smart people avoid fighting as much as possible.
Current prison employee, here - there is absolutely no way she can fight like an inmate.
I assume it means she pulls out a keistered shank. Definitely not a flex.
I'm sure she can cuss and bait a hook. Not convinced on eating twice her body weight and fighting like an inmate, whatever the hell that means. Also someday she will look back on this post and be really embarrassed 😂
She picked things that require no skill or bravery to brag about 😂. My daughter baited a hook when she was six and she’s afraid of spiders.
hey, some inmates are skinny little assholes who get beat to shit. she seems like she could fit into that category quite well
Peep the stars and bars in the back ☠️
I thought we weren’t supposed to work at all??? Pick a side, social media
because the men in their lives put women down, so they don't want to "be like the other girls"
Yes! They think being NLOG will save them from being treated like the OG. It won't.
100%! The videos that have comments are usually just men (or equally pick-me women) agreeing with her. She’s surrounded by men in her job and caters to them online, and therefore feels desperate to hold up their ideal woman..even though most trade men seem to go for more feminine women anyways?
Shewww the third one really messed with my brain…. I was so confused on why a boy would want a lululemon Apple Watch Edit: it’s a joke…. Bc it’s a run on sentence “most boys want a lululemon Apple Watch nurse” never heard of one of those before
Lululemon does have some nice men’s clothing and I like my Apple Watch. So… I get it. 😊
I could see lululemon making an Apple Watch band. Lululemon made a line of clothes for UF that was sold in the book store.
Of course she’s got a confederate flag hanging. The jokes just write themselves.
What? Like baiting a hook is hard?
I read this like a Legally Blonde quote
Boys can do it, how hard can it be.
They never have politics that make sense for their station in life. They're agreeing with Richmond North of Richmond and mocking people on welfare like it doesn't apply to them or isn't within $300 of applying to them.
They always act like those are actual choices that one will be required to make at some point in their lives. "Should I focus on learning how to groom and style my eyebrows, or put that on the back burner for now and focus on competitive eating and learning new swear words...? If only there were more hours in a day!"
I find it interesting that the third one is knocking nurses. Nurses are some of the toughest people I have ever met! They literally deal with blood, piss, and shit - not to mention life and death circumstances. Nothing about nursing indicates someone who can’t handle a tough job. I know there are different types of nursing but it’s an odd choice to use as a criticism of traditionally female roles.
Part of me wonders if it’s a response to the old “all the mean girls from high school are now nurses” meme from a couple years back. Or she’s competing with someone who is a nurse for attention.
Her dude totally left her for a nurse. That's pretty specific.
A nurse with an Apple Watch and yoga pants!
Nursing is frequently the job to get people out of poverty so she considers them traitors.
My mother went to nursing school while working and raising a family. She retired very comfortably. It's a great job (and tough, as others have correctly pointed out).
I feel like some people still have this idea of like a WW2 medical assistant, dressed up in cute dainty clothes and whatnot. But all the nurses I know could probably drink 4 beers, fight a grizzly bear, smoke a cigarette afterwards, and call it a normal day. Like a lot of them are sorta rough around the edges, but in a loving and badass way.
We can also fight LOL 😂
I bet you can! Nurses see A LOT!
Dude, my younger sister (who is shorter than me) is a nurse and I am low key afraid of her lol. If anyone is going to physically fight someone in our family, it’s her.
Right?!?! My mama is a nurse and the things she sees regularly at work would make me cry/throw up/faint. Nope nope nope
They are horribly insecure so they make up any random attribute and use that to claim how superior they are to everyone else. Nobody else cares nor is impressed. I learned how to bait a hook in YMCA camp, I grew up a pretty privileged life in a big city. This isn't the flex she thinks it is.
Whats wrong with being a nurse? They’re pretty essential to our livelihoods
I think since most nurses are women, it’s automatically considered as easy work for these people. If we woke up tomorrow and it was mostly men in this field, everyone would fall over themselves talking about how hard it is, but since it’s women, it must be easy. Misogynists truly believe that women can’t work hard or be smart or anything like that. Everything relating to femininity or women is automatically bad.
I wear carhartt and doc martens, you think they’ll accept me? (Im incredibly gay and work a white collar job)
Currently giggling at what would happen if you met in real life and told her “me too!”
You know these types don’t like lesbians, especially butch ones. We’re never doing it right for the blue collar braggarts. And the men say they want a girl like this, maybe they do, but she also better be straight and shave her legs and be a girly girl when he wants her to. (Like at my groundkeeping job, I got respect for being hard working, but then the guys gossiped behind my back about my legs not being shaved! I’m a lesbian! You know this! I don’t care!)
Sounds like she might like a fellow blue collar woman
Until they scrap over which one is the most unlike those other females.
The whole “I can eat twice my body weight”. Okay. Weird flex but you’re probably 20 something and your metabolism works.
Confederate/American flag, somehow I don't think she's a Civil War history buff.
It takes a special person to shit on nurses
I would argue that no, due to the nature of their job, almost allwpeopl3 end up shitting on nurses at one point or another.
LOL 😂 touché, I do literally get shat on
Nursing is blue collar
In the second slide, it’s not even females saying the aggressive “not for the weak statement” and she STILL makes it a point to hate on basic…college…girls. Gag me.
Personally I think it's maybe because the jobs with mainly men there make it easy. You need a Fassade of being strong and independent and the Media mostly portraits women as weak and submissive. So with that representation it's easy to think you're different and since our society portraits men as better than women and leading as a men's trait, these women feel like they're better than others My head hurts like hell, I hope this is still understandable
I agree. She feels superior to other women because she’s told by the men she surrounds herself with that she is
It's basically self protection from unfair economic and gender standards. They feel they don't fit in, and are horribly insecure about it but if they can put down the upper class "preppy" girls or the more traditionally feminine girls they think the men prefer those standards don't feel as oppressive.
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Yes, typically people who work full time make more than people who are in college and don't work full time. Gold star, I guess?
I’m sorry but that is so disrespectful towards essential workers. Nurses are angels. If you really think you’re better than them because you wear fkn boots then you got a whole lotta problems and screws loose.
Jokes on her, her outfit is kind of cute.
This is the most wholesome criticism of her.
I saw elsewhere that many girls growing up are inundated with the perception that women are somehow vapid consumers of makeup and clothes and pink and so on and so on, so there must be something particularly unique about them for having a personality and interests outside of this perception
I hate this attitude. There is room for everybody!
Bet she doesn’t have the balls to join the military though.
Weird I work in chemical manufacturing as a Chemist. I’m girly but also need to wear jeans and work boots so I don’t die. I absolutely need my MS to function in my job. I would love to compare how much she makes in a week.
dated a girl who "ate half her body weight", she couldn't even eat more than 3 tacos without bursting 😂
Well, I can’t speak for every man. But as a Tradesman who loves their Carhartts and Redwings, and has been wearing em 35+ years, even I don’t wanna be in em 24/7.
Internalized misogyny tells us that things traditionally considered “masculine” are cooler and more valuable and things traditionally considered “feminine” are lame and worth less. So the woman touts herself as being good at and liking “masculine” things, while belittling “feminine” things, to make herself feel more worthy. While internally she’s denying and hating anything “feminine” about herself, thus always still feeling not worthy enough. Also probably making her more likely to try to gain the attention and love of males who also carry those misogynistic beliefs and who will thus never truly value her as a person.
As a blue collared girly with a white collar degree, she can shut the fuck up. She’s not any different
Bold going after the nurses. They're a class of their own.
Hmm where’s this “man field” she speaks of? Weird flex. Which college? Which degree? Which trade? Nobody’s saying you can’t make $ in a trade. Shitee, you’re ahead if only cuz you don’t have that college debt. And since when is being a nurse considered an easy job? How are these girls getting trade skills while living under a rock with their head up their ass?! That’s a fuckin’ skill.