The cultural significance of „Go piss girl”

With a special shoutout to Sophia Stedman, MTM

Imagine being an introverted sixteen year old girl, one of your first times officialing at a session. One of your fellow team members mentions wanting to use the restroom, and in attempt to be funny you tell them to “go piss girl”. Five heads turn around. Staring at you. Judgmental faces, disgusted faces, faces laughing at you, not with you. You want to disappear off the face of the earth, drop the session, never be seen again. Trying to make yourself as small as possible, you start scrambling random words, trying to explain you’re not a weirdo wishing others well on the toilet, you’re simply cultured. Don’t ask me how I am still in this organisation – surviving this was hard. 

 

During the Pandemic, a Twitter user (of course it’s Twitter, what do you expect), posted a picture with the caption “This is testing what little sanity I have left”. The attached picture shows two of the main characters of the TV series “Gossip Girl”, Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. In it, Serena’s picture is captured with the words “I have to pee”, and Blair’s response is the legendary phrase “Go piss girl”. This phrase however is collaged out of the title of the show, “Gossip Girl”. The internet took this meme and ran with it, remixing the letters to say the most random things ever, all with the picture of Blair Waldorf in the background. Versions like “go girl”, “pspspsps” with a cat picture next to it, “pi girl” referring to the mathematical number or “si girl” as a reply to whether she speaks Spanish. 

 

Sophia, the icon, the legend themselves, has taken this iconic internet meme, and transformed it once again, to fit this Session – Pordenone International Session. “go pisgirl”, with the logo of the Session in between the words, brings this pop culture moment to EYP. With luck on their side, Sophia received a thousand of these stickers instead of the ordered 250. So, I urge you to accept these stickers, hand them to your fellow delegates and officials, and spread the knowledge of this pop culture moment. Not only to have a laugh or funny moment, but to prevent young sixteen year old girls (or gays and theys) from having horrible, scary moments of falling victim to uninformed team members.