The Diva Title

| March 3, 2010 | 8 comments

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What does being a diva mean these days? Everyone seems to be using the term, sort of like how the term bitch became popular many years back. No sorry girl, you are not a bitch, you are a moron actually.

So what does diva really mean? Initially it meant you were a distinguished female singer. What I take is it now also means you are special and you want to be spoiled. You feel you somehow deserve more than the average person, as Wikipedia states, it is also related to being a “prima donna”. It also seems to me, correct me if I’m wrong, it seems a diva is a lot of fucking work.

I am not a diva, I’ve never been a diva. I’ve been spoiled here and there in my life but I’ve never expected anything or demanded anything. I’ve never bought a Coach bag and I’ve never even been in a store that sells the kinds of shoes that Carrie Bradshaw famously wears.

I think someone like me needs my own term but maybe not having to have a name is kind of the point.

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  • http://www.thecorporatechick.com Alissa

    I’m not a diva, but I know I can be a bit of a prima donna. I really just consider myself a “girlie girl” but a smart one. I don’t know. I don’t like being labeled.

  • http://darnedtoheck.blogspot.com/ Grant

    I suggest Flurkerist as the new term defining who you are.

  • http://lifeisnotamovie.net Robin

    @Alissa, well we can all be a little bit of a prima donna or a girly girl…I was more referencing people who refer to themselves as Divas and the connotation behind it.

  • http://lifeisnotamovie.net Robin

    @Grant, ok, you would know best.

  • http://www.mywildlifeswords.com Jennifer Lynn

    Everyone I have ever met who proclaimed themselves as a ‘DIVA’……suffice to say: not on the stalking list.

    PS: What’s up with that expression “suffice to say or suffice it to say or it suffices to say”…..meh.

  • http://www.secretinnerlife.com Not Your Mom

    I have never been spoiled probably because I am not petite and speaking my mind does not encourage spoiling by the male species. I do own luxury items that I purchased with money that I made. Not lavish presents from anybody.

    Would you want people to be able to “label” you as soon as they lay eyes on you? Diva. Valley Girl. Gym Rat. If any, I’d like to be known and recognized as Woman of Her Own Heart. :-)

    *(I’ve decided not to identify myself in the bloggy world first of all as a mom… Hence the change of (fake) name…)

  • http://lifeisnotamovie.net Robin

    @Jennifer Lynn, I don’t know, maybe that’s for another post ;)

  • http://lifeisnotamovie.net Robin

    @Not Your Mom, exactly my point really, I am so turned off by labels like that.