Being the director of a company should have gravitas, should come with power and should drip with respectability. A live events production company no less, a funky business that deals in comedy, live music…you know, fun stuff, with cool people who wear massive sunglasses that hide the dark circles from the coke-fuelled parties the night before.
In reality, I spent yesterday handing out flyers for an event we’re running in Madame JoJo’s in Soho and getting ignored. By far the worst were the looks of utter disgust from office girls – you try offering a flyer to a girl dressed in work clothes and looking all ‘pouty’, and see what reaction you get. One pair of girls actually laughed at me, with one saying as she walked past, "obviously can’t get a real job" which I felt was rather…well, nasty.
It’s funny as well, because the traits a lot of women like (or seem to) involve hard-working, dedicated and outgoing types, not forgetting GSOH. Lets look at the evidence here: I run my own company, I’ll do whatever it takes to make stuff work including flyering or dressing up, and I do my own stand-up comedy during the week. I’m all over those qualities, surely – and also, I'm flyering for a charity event with five major UK charities being represented (RNLI, Teenage Cancer Trust, Oxfam, Centrepoint and International Medical Corps) so I’m giving too! Although I confess the phrase ‘kill two birds with one stone’ popped into my head. But there was no loose masonry nearby.
It always gets my goat when people dismiss others – especially when it’s me!
Anyhow, if any of you lovely readers would like to come down tonight, all the details are here at www.crowntheclown.com - and if you turn up on the door mentioning 'Todger Talk you can have the £8 price usually reserved for those who book on-line. All the door takings are donated to charity so you can have a good laugh and give something.
2 comments:
Urgh, such snobbery. When I was last in London 'decent jobs' were such a crapshoot I wound up flyering door to door. It's a crap thing to be doing but I'm kinda glad because it took me down many streets I wouldn't have otherwise noticed, and showed me how weird front gardens are.
As for you, Dan, crazy how doing the grunt promotion work yourself makes you seem less attractive than paying someone else to do it would be! It's all about the snobbery, I guess, not about whether a guy's actually doing the best for himself or not.
And your point is - from one nasty snobbish woman, generalising to an entire gender??
Strikes me as ... nasty?
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