Meditations on Meanness - by charlie - evil female

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How mean should we be? How nice should we be? Probably more of both.

I could stand to be nicer. I am off-puttingly sarcastic and glib and I have an arctic-dry New England sense of humor that often doesn’t read well in most rooms. I can be harshly judgmental, often to grant myself some sense of superiority to counter my usual wallows of insecurity. This is not good. Unsurprisingly, I never fit in growing up. I always had the wrong haircut and the wrong shoes and shorts that were too long; I played no sports in my four years of middle school but once a week I demanded my mother bring me to school an hour early so that I could attend mathlete practice. I am…

Meditations on Meanness - by charlie - evil female

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