The real reason you're using 'Girl Math' isn't as funny as the TikTok trend would make you think

Vandals_handle, 9 months ago

Amortization. How I justify a $600 ski pass. If I ski 30 days, it breaks down to just $20 a day. If I average 15 runs each ski day it’s just $1.33 a run. I also end up skiing more often because my pass is already paid for.

PotatoesFall, 9 months ago

Is this a real article and not satire? Clearly those videos are making fun of bad financial decisions, they aren’t causing or a symptom of them.

neptune, 9 months ago

Read it.

bob_wiley, 9 months ago

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theKalash, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

My theory is, that while calling it “girl maths” to imply it’s bad maths is indeed quite sexist, it kind of get’s canceled out because hating and being bad at maths is actually “cool” and “hip” with the young people.

Can someone please send another big Asteroid our way?

Pons_Aelius, 9 months ago

hating and being bad at maths is actually “cool” and “hip” with the young people.

That is nothing new, it is called being a teenager. It is part of the human physiological development where we push back against our childhood authority figures in an attempt to define our selfhood.

You (and I and all of us) were as insufferable as teens as the current generation.

theKalash, 9 months ago

This is not limited to teenagers.

Pons_Aelius, 9 months ago

True. Most grow out of it but many don't.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

treefrog, 9 months ago

I have a penis. My partner a vagina. She’s way better with money than me and uses trig every day for her work (lighting design is math intensive).

Meanwhile, I yell at my computer trying to get my remedial fraction homework figured out.