Okay, my ultra-progressive housemate has just admitted that there was a time when he wouldn't have dated a girl with short hair. WTF?
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2008 6:01:47 pm PDT #7374 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Cass - Jul 16, 2008 6:01:56 pm PDT #7375 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I can send you the name/number of a lawyer in the area. If she can't give you personalized information, she can send you to someone who can. But I don't feel comfortable talking about anything more precise in a public place.
Pix - Jul 16, 2008 6:03:14 pm PDT #7376 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Cass, thanks. They have a lawyer all set, so I think we're okay. I'm just helping Drew sift through a mountain of paperwork, and we started worrying about his mom.
Laura - Jul 16, 2008 6:07:12 pm PDT #7377 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Okay, my ultra-progressive housemate has just admitted that there was a time when he wouldn't have dated a girl with short hair. WTF?
I had waist length hair as a teen when my boyfriend said he would break up with me if I cut it. Of course that resulted in my going with the popular at the time Mia Farrow super short cut. He didn't leave me. But it was a clue that it wasn't going to last forever.
SuziQ - Jul 16, 2008 6:07:20 pm PDT #7378 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
my ultra-progressive housemate
The one who, if memory serves, is bald?
NoiseDesign - Jul 16, 2008 6:09:49 pm PDT #7379 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, there's a family lawyer that has all the documents, I'm just going though Dad's records so that I have a vague idea of what I'm looking at when I talk to the lawyer.
Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2008 6:09:59 pm PDT #7380 of 10001
brillig
When my father died in '83, my mother ran into a lot of problems because her name wasn't on the deed to the house.
oldskool sexism
Yeah, my raised-by-wolves Hubby has some unpleasant swirls in the ice cream of his psyche.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2008 6:10:31 pm PDT #7381 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hah! Truth be told, he shaves his head. I don't know what his hair would look like if he didn't.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 6:32:37 pm PDT #7382 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Frankly, I'm still terrified of the pixie cut. If I ever got one
JZ, what do you call the style you have now? Because I saw pictures of you (from Suzi's going-away party, I think), and I thought it was a pixie cut. It looks like your hair is already pretty darned short. (And, I might add, pretty darned pretty!)
But it totally could have been the angle of the pictures.
ION (well, still the hair-length issue, just not related to JZ's hair), I guess the thing that bothers me so much when it comes to men getting all obsessed and weird about women's hair length is that I just don't like someone telling me how I should look in order to be considered attractive.
Which, er, is something that everyone already knew about me, so I *should* just shut the fuck up about it, but I'm exiled from the internet almost all day now, so I have to post, dang it!
But seriously. "Your [waist-length/shoulder-length/pixie-cut] hair is sooooooooooooo gorgeous! I mean, like, really really really AMAZING! You must NEVER CHANGE IT EVER/GROW IT LONGER/CUT 10 INCHES OFF RIGHT NOW. Because, you know, women with [short hair/long hair/whatever] are unfeminine/ugly/DOOMED TO A LIFETIME OF LONELINESS AND SELF-PITY CORN FRITTERS AND YOU WILL BE, TOO, UNLESS YOU CHANGE YOUR APPEARANCE TO THE WAY I SAY RIGHT NOW!!!!"
That's, uh, how it reads to me when someone (generally a man I'm involved with, but not always) tells me I should grow my hair/cut my hair/color my hair back to blonde (I love The Boy, but that hurt)/wear more makeup/stop wearing makeup/wear heels/dress up/dress casual/whatthefuckever.
Which I realize is my own fucked-up, get-some-Prozac-now issue, but all the same, I don't think I've ever told a man I was involved with that I thought he should change his appearance. Because it feels like it would be a criticism of his current appearance, and therefore insulting and....my issues.
(Plus, the whole "Don't ever cut your hair, baby," thing feels so POSSESSIVE. Uh, dude, you do remember that it's not actually YOUR hair, right? It's MY goddamn hair, and I'll do whatever I want to it, 'K?)
Strix - Jul 16, 2008 6:36:11 pm PDT #7383 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ah. So much to happen.
Drew, so sad for you and your family. I wish for you strength, and peace that you can hold for a while.
I am typing from a wonky keyboard, so I will not have much to say, although there is a lot I would like to.
I have an interview tomorrow at 11 CST. Wish me luck.
Trudy, yay job! Rub sommma that luck off on me, k?
I tried that shine/glossifier treatment tonight, cause it was a little too soon to dye again, but my hair was a leetle to dull and slightly rooty for me feeling jazzy at an interview. It helped, and was really easy.
Ok, must go stare at portfolio some more.