#NerdsUnite: Suzie Signmaker & #OWS

<editorsnote> So, now apparently we have opened the door wide with the Occupy movement. See! I told ya'll that I personally wouldn't talk about it, but apparently a WHOOLLLLEEE lot of you have a lot to say about it - like my GirlsIRL partner Jenn Hoffman. Here's her take. HIT IT JENN!  </editorsnote>

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JennHoffman

“Get a job, you hippie.”

If this is your reaction to Occupy Wall Street, you aren’t thinking critically.

I have a lot to say about OWS, but first let’s address this ridiculous “sign” made by a typical Suzie Signmaker (pictured above).

Simply put, this girl is an idiot. She’s an idiot because she assumes the people at OWS are all jobless. She’s an idiot because she assumes all the OWS supporters come from one mindset or one particular point of view. She’s an idiot because she assumes all the protesters majored in “Bitter Women’s Studies” rather than “Biology”, when statistically students who major in the “ologies” are unemployed, underemployed  or in as much student debt as those who majored in a specifically directed liberal arts areas such as gender studies. She’s an idiot because she thinks that if you care about the socio-economic advancement of Americans you must be a lazy communist left-wing wacko. She’s also an idiot because her mother was probably also a useless idiot who taught her that women should not have careers, or they will become hateful dykes who major in things like “bitter women’s studies.”

But mostly, she is an idiot because she doesn’t understand that her parents raised her in a time when the average family COULD afford to have her mother leave work to “raise her properly.”

This time no longer exists.

This time no longer exists because the middle class she so was so lucky to be part of in the 80s or 90s is slowly being eradicated by the gaping hole in between the have’s and have-not’s. People like the hard working father she describes would have to SURVIVE rather than THRIVE in America today. Suzie is blinded by her own blissful experience, so Suzie can’t see that.

The men and women of Occupy Wall Street are protesting because good, decent, hard working people can’t even afford the modest lifestyle she was so fortunate to have. She doesn’t realize that engineers have been laid off at exponential rates since the 90s, so maybe her father was a hard worker – or maybe he was just lucky. She doesn’t realize that when she was growing up, greedy home lenders weren’t giving out dirty mortgage loans with balloon payments, leaving many people just like her parents unable to keep up with rising cost of even their “modest” homes. She doesn’t realize that if many of these people did get a job at McDonald’s they would still be unable to pay their basic bills, afford any form of Healthcare or make enough money to get out of the insurmountable amount of debt you  incur just to attend college, visit a hospital or put food on the table.

Funny enough, me and this girl Suzie are not very different:

MY dad was also successful computer engineer and MY mom quit her career to “raise” me right too. We also lived within our means and were not in any credit card debt or danger of losing our home when growing up. I majored in Communication and Sociology in college and I have an MBA (majors that are apparently acceptable to her) and I was employed straight out of college.

But unlike her:

I AM the 99% and I know it. She is part of the 99% too, but she is too simple to understand that the other 1% depends on her ignorance and complacency in order to keep her right where she is: Blind and going nowhere.

So Suzie, keep making your silly signs and sticking your empty head deeper and deeper into the sand. In the meantime the rest of us more evolved people will be busy trying to organize all the bitter women, hippies and communist whackos so you can afford to remain stupid, useless and dull.

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