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> “I feel like I should be having more fun than I’m actually having,” says Alyssa Alvarez, a social media marketing manager and DJ in Detroit, expressing a sent
by tempodox 3y ago
> “I feel like I should be having more fun than I’m actually having,” says Alyssa Alvarez, a social media marketing manager and DJ in Detroit, expressing a sentiment that many share. “There are expectations of what I want people to believe that my life is like rather than what my life is actually like.”
There is a deep irony in having a social media marketing manager say these things.
- drewcoo 3y agoThat's entirely appropriate. Did the definition of irony change, too?
- willsoon 3y agoIn other languages, irony is saying one word for another. Basically, you can stretch the meaning. In English, it seems to mean something different: a fuzzy oxymoron-like thing. If this is wrong, sorry, not a native English speaker here.
- namaria 3y agoIrony went from 'sarcasm based humor' to 'humorously coincidental' in colloquial english.
- Beldin 3y agoNo, appropriate would be if she made a professional observation about her field. A professional realising they're personally doing "their" thing wrong - from a professional point of view at least - is indeed ironic.