It’s not a bad shrink or a missing pet, but our internet’s been down all day and are reduced to using phones to check mail, etc. Pretty minor inconvenience, I know.
That’s probably the worst thing I can imagine going on right now, it’s like… stone age.
…or the 90’s.
Seriously, don’t start wearing flannel or anything…
My dad had a friend who talked about this one cat he got.
He loved that cat, and treated him right.
The cat, for whatever reason, decided to move next door. (I suspect they had shrimp more often.)
Thereafter, he would walk out onto his balcony with his morning cup of coffee, and see the cat sunning himself on the neighbor’s balcony.
Morale of the story: buy more shrimp.
What a load of craaap. Good for you for standing up for yourself! (And don’t get me started on gender rules, anyway, or we’ll be here all night. :D)
Ugh, gender rules and gender roles, what you should and shouldn’t do… remind me one day to tell y’all about the wonder of “girl school” :mad:.
Yeah, I tend to get a little… shall we say overzealous… about the cultural norms of gender. 
Who the hell decided pink was for girls and blue was for boys, anyway? 
One of my favorite memories of when kidsAZ were little was when both boys wanted to put on my velcro hair rollers one day. They were about 5 & 2 1/2 I’d say. HubAZ was beside himself freaking out. I, of course, snapped a photo or two. HubAZ grew up in an all male house, and only saw his mom every other weekend, so he didn’t get that the kids were just copying what mommy did and that it was okay.
To this day, I still occassionaly catch BrettAZ slipping into a pair of my heels to see if he can walk in them, just for fun.
My two are SO hetero, but I like to think they are in touch with the other side because of my fantastic (though admittedly high maintenance) example!
Interestingly enough, back in the early part of the last century it was the other way around. (from what I’ve read)
Yep! Pink was seen as a softer version of red, which was a male colour, and Blue was female because it’s the colour usually associated with Mary in Christianity.
Further back than that all children were girls, it was another word for “child”. Male children were called “Knave Girls” and Female “Gay Girls”.
“Boy” was a slightly derogatory term for a male servant.
The thing Stephen Fry teaches us are ALL important!
They could just REALLY like heels! Cowboy boots maybe? 
I do that from time-to-time, Girl School REALLY wound me up because so much of it was focused on what other people think, rather than what the individual thinks.
“Girls wouldn’t walk like that!”
“That’s how a Boy would stand”
and so on.
It’s all well and good, but even if it’s not the “standard” doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Which is why I loved it so, just another hoop to jump through! YEY!
I’m missing something. Girl School?
I had a co-worker freak because she caught her nephew playing with his twin sister’s doll. Ticked me off to no end. I may have let her have it about teaching negative gender based stereotypes to a 3 yr old. :rolleyes:
My point exactly. I know so many guys who refuse on general principal to wear pink. Why? It’s just a color. And my other favorite example is that as recently as 50 yrs ago, it was dead wrong for a woman to wear trousers. Now it’s the norm.
Right. It just drives me nuts that people fear breaking societal gender norms so much. Will the world end if girls sit with their knees apart? Will war break out over boys showing emotion? Of course not. We spend so much time worrying about (and teaching our children to worry about) what someone else might think, we create a negative environment.
And there I go… I’ll step down off my soapbox now… Sorry… :rolleyes:
I say men and woman with good legs should show them off. Men have skirts in parts of the world with pride. OK they may call them something else.
Yeah, I’ve always thought of you here as very submissive. :rolleyes:
My new senator thinks I’m a second-class citizen 
HubAZ (House Republican) is out of town on business so I (House Democrat) got to hang up on the automated “Hi we’re calling about the upcoming Republican Primary Election” call.
Oops, maybe I should post that in the cool crap thread not here!
My new governor thinks that I should stay home and have babies. As long as they’re Christian babies.
That said, the MA election stuff sucks. ((((wavilyem))))
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-18-2010/mass-backwards
…so frakkin true
that and I can’t get “Pants on the Ground” out of my head. GAH!!
It’s part support group, part finishing school. I’m sure you’ve noticed that men and women move, act and react differently to things, not to mention talk, part of the Trans process for me involved going to “girl school” for far longer than I was happy with, so I could learn to sit properly in a dress.
cos y’see, I was dumb, and would throw it over my head and balance in a corner singing selections from “Hair”.