Today, away at college, I called my grandmother to hear how she was doing after her knee surgery. She ended up talking about Hooters and how I should work there because of my "rare body". When I mentioned I've been studying computer science, earning a 3.8 GPA, she replied, "But you're a girl." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was eating lunch when my grandmother came over and started watching me. Suddenly she said, "I see you're getting breasts". I'm a guy. FML
Today, I graduated from college with two undergrad degrees in biochem and wildlife biology, with high distinction. My mom told me she had found me a job at a petting zoo. I thought she was joking. She then said sternly, "I want grandkids. At least you will meet girls there." FML
Today, I was finally having a conversation with my granny, who I don't get to see often. First thing she tells me was that she was going to have surgery soon, because her "women's insides" were "dangling out." FML
Today, I was feeling really down and insecure after a friend joked about how small my boobs are. When my grandma got me to tell her what happened, she reassured me that all the girls in our family were late bloomers. I said "Really?" and she replied, "Oh no dear. Quite the opposite." FML
Today, a girl came up to me on the street and said, "You have like no swag, bro." Feeling clever, I said, "At least I have a high school education." She then took out her work ID, showing me that she was a surgeon, flipped me off, then walked away saying, "This is totally going on Facebook." FML
Today, my grandma picked up the phone. It was a man asking to speak to me. Instead of giving me the phone she decides to hang up on him, thinking it was some guy trying to "get with me." It turned out to be the call I've been waiting all week for... a call from a huge company about a job offer. FML
Today, I was working at my job as a cashier, checking out an elderly woman's groceries. She was very nice, and we chatted for a couple minutes. Once she had paid, she leaned close to me and said, very politely, "I'm so so sorry that I mistook you for a girl at first, young man." I AM a girl. FML
Today, my perfectly sane and healthy 90 year old grandmother had a heart to heart with me. She told me she'd pay for a boob job. When I asked why, she said, "Sweetie, you'll never attract someone with those tiny suckers." FML
Today, after months of cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner for my husband's grandmother due to her getting a hip replacement, I overheard her calling me a whore over the phone from the next room. FML
Today, I asked my grandmother what she looked like when she was young. She casually replied, "I was ugly, sweetie. Just like you." FML
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iAmPaul 49
Well, she certainly has an archaic way of thinking.
iAmPaul 49
It pisses me off when people say that. Being old does NOT make it ok to say those reprehensible things with her outdated values and mindset.
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Comments (157)
code_zombie 4
Yeah a fellow programmer. When I took AP Computer Science in High School there was only one girl in the entire class. Glad to see women getting into CS.
unique_freak 17
lol if this fml wasn't anonymous I would really really think they were just fishing for dates. Seriously, If you could write a personal ad, wouldn't you want it to say "Hi, I have a body so banging that even my grandma thinks I should work at hooters, but I"m also smart enough to have a 3.8 GPA. Also, I care enough about my family to call them after their surgery, even if they sexistlly don't appreciate it because I am awesome" Assuming it's true, while sexist comments suck I have a really hard time saying that OP's life sucks. More like half a second of OP's life was slightly less awesome. But there isn't a button for that.
StoneDefender 2
An intelligent mind that also has drive is rarer than a good looking body.
ScarlettVixen_fml 5
Generation gap, much?
dark_angel4121 12
Obviously she grew up in the era of "a woman's place is in the kitchen." Don't be too mad at her; she's doesn't know any better. Prove her wrong by getting a kick-ass, high paying job.
bearrrrrrr 6
epic grandmother
LoamierGhost 6
"I'm a beautiful woman doing really well in college, my life is so difficult."
Nizmiz 0
Uwaterloo?
laurxn 9
and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need feminism
The_Khan 12
I would disagree. Sure feminism right now shout alot about how women should be in STEM (Science Technology, Economics and Math I think), but the feminists themselves are more often then not firmly rooted in "womens studies" or the like instead, showing that feminists want other women to choose the fields they themselves are not intrested in. Women like OP just do what intrests her with no regards to gender and for that she is a model to us all. To bring feminism into it is doing the OP a disservice. If you are talking about the grandma, well she is abit of a dissapointment, but she is from an age we moved past. A testament to why we used to need feminism, but nowadays the actual problems are sorted and feminism seems to cling to stay relevent by finding issues that really are not something I would call issues.
fantasyworld 39
Prove her wrong.