Passive-Aggressive Notes
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Passive-Aggressive Notes was a website that documented "painfully polite and hilariously hostile notes from shared spaces the world over"; most of these spaces were shared apartments, offices, or stores.[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13997906 NPR: "Web Site Reveals the Dark Side of Roomies"]
Passive-Aggressive Notes was similar to other projects like Found Magazine and PostSecret that also collected handwritten notes, and shared a similar "blog" format (where readers sent in their own entries to the site) as the humor sites [http://www.photoshopdisasters.com Photoshop Disasters], [http://www.notalwaysright.com Not Always Right], [http://www.ertards.com Overheard in the ER], and [http://www.thingsmymothersaid.wordpress.com Things My Mother Said].{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,,2209480,00.html|title=Passive-aggressive notes: the sneaky way to vent your spleen|last=Dowling|first=Tim|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=2012-08-09|location=London}}
Purpose
According to the site, "for the purposes of this project, we're using a pretty broad definition of "passive-aggressive" that roughly correlates with how the term is popularly used."
As the New York Times wrote: "the classic description of the behavior captures a stubborn malcontent, someone who passively resists fulfilling routine tasks, complains of being misunderstood and underappreciated, unreasonably scorns authority and voices exaggerated complaints of personal misfortune"."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/health/psychology/16pass.html?pagewanted=all|title=Oh, Fine, You're Right. I'm Passive-Aggressive.|last=Carey|first=Benedict|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=2012-08-09|date=2004-11-16}}
History
The site was founded in May 2007, by Kerry Miller, a writer based in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite news|url=http://thephoenix.com/Boston/life/44789-dishes-must-be-done-before-bedtime/|title=Dishes must be done before bedtime|last=Curran|first=Cailtin E.|newspaper=The Boston Phoenix|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
Passive-Aggressive Notes spawned a book published by HarperCollins. In the United States and Canada, it is titled Passive-Aggressive Notes; while, in the United Kingdom and Australia, it is titled Your Mother Doesn't Work Here.
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com}}
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