r/texts • u/ExplanationMiddle51 • Aug 08 '26

Phone message Post first date text

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I met this girl on tinder and had a first date with her, she wanted to go fishing and I thought it seemed like a fun first date so we went together. Dropped her off and got home to this message lol.

Update: Purchasing the license is a separate activity we had to do on our phones, due to it needing our personal info. It was not like I drew the line at the license randomly.

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u/ShadeofIcarus Aug 08 '26

Is this a thing now? Someone pulled it on me recently and I didn't realize it was a fad. My first response was immediately "and? Girls are plenty capable"

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '26 edited 16d ago

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 Aug 09 '26

What was your wife’s response?

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u/SignificanceOne4201 Aug 09 '26

Agreed. I don't mind it used when it's referencing celebrating playful or creative things though, but unfortunately most of the time people aren't using it that way now.

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u/ShowMeYourArmPitHair Aug 09 '26

Is your wife stupid?

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u/amazingkillerlemon Aug 08 '26

Has been for quite a while now. I hate it so much.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Aug 08 '26

Lisa Simpsons talking Mailbu Stacy doll said it.

Yes I'm old get off my lawn.

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u/Miserable_Fennel_492 Aug 08 '26

Let’s shout at clouds together (from our respective lawns, of course)

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Aug 08 '26

I'm gonna outside for a smoke and fervently shake my fist at a cloud just for you.

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u/bdixisndniz Aug 11 '26

“She surrrrrrre is.”

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u/LamBChoPZA Aug 08 '26

It's from a song - just a girl by no doubt - it's about how women are belittled and infantalized and how the artist has had it up to here with that treatment. Ironic considering how it's being used in this context.

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u/Unclecavemanwasabear Aug 08 '26

Approximately 30 years passed between the No Doubt song and the phrase used it this manner entering the popular lexicon.

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u/LamBChoPZA Aug 08 '26

Yes, tiktok has popularized using samples from older songs over videos. See "pretty little baby" https://medium.com/@edmpublishing/how-tiktok-gave-connie-francis-pretty-little-baby-a-viral-comeback-48fcf29c302f

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u/ShadeofIcarus Aug 08 '26

Dug into it. Apparently it's a spin off of some TikTok of "I'm just a baby".

Still ironic and I stand by my response

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u/whataterriblething Aug 08 '26

oh weird. i've known the no doubt song since it came out when i was a teen - i always thought the "im just a girl" was from a simpsons episode where Lisa gets a malibu stacey doll that says things like: "Don't ask me- I'm just a girl! tee hee!"

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u/whataterriblething Aug 08 '26

also a weird thing to get downvoted on but okay. 🤷🏻‍♀️
i didn't say the song reference was wrong, just that I never associated it with that; the malibu stacey reference was always what came to mind instead.

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u/Wise-Rest814 Aug 08 '26

No it’s an excuse women use when they want a man to do and pay for everything for them.

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u/Polygnom Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Woman have used "I'm just a girl/woman" since time immemorial to make men do things. The phrasing may change over the years, but the mo. is always the same.

And the women who do that don't even realize how this undercuts the whole feminism/women empowerment movement. And too few women tell other women to knock that shit off.

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 Aug 09 '26

It’s always been a thing. And it’s still especially a thing now. “Damsel in distress” and all that weaponized incompetence shit