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minus-square@SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•7 months agoEver seen girl math? “If I preload my Starbucks account with $25 and I go to Starbucks the following week, my order was free.” “Spending money abroad doesn’t count because it’s a different currency.” Things aren’t mathing as they should.
minus-square@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish24•7 months agoWhat makes this “girl” math?
minus-square@shalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoAnecdotally, I’ve only heard women use that sort of argument IRL. Kinda falls in the, “This widget is 80% so I’m saving money!” Well, no, not if you didn’t have to purchase the widget in the first place. Men are hardly immune, but in my experience it’s more so women.
minus-square@MimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•7 months agoAs I recently learned, “If I return clothes to the store (store credit), but then buy new clothes (using that store credit), those new clothes are free. (No new money spent)”
minus-square@sem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoThey aren’t free but they are a sunk cost so you might as well
Ever seen girl math?
“If I preload my Starbucks account with $25 and I go to Starbucks the following week, my order was free.”
“Spending money abroad doesn’t count because it’s a different currency.”
Things aren’t mathing as they should.
What makes this “girl” math?
Sexism 👉👉
Anecdotally, I’ve only heard women use that sort of argument IRL. Kinda falls in the, “This widget is 80% so I’m saving money!”
Well, no, not if you didn’t have to purchase the widget in the first place.
Men are hardly immune, but in my experience it’s more so women.
As I recently learned,
“If I return clothes to the store (store credit), but then buy new clothes (using that store credit), those new clothes are free. (No new money spent)”
They aren’t free but they are a sunk cost so you might as well