So there is something I can do, besides scream like a woman?

Wesley ,'Chosen'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Consuela - May 12, 2011 5:48:38 pm PDT #8049 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Obligated? Nope. But it's part of the general package, like Teppy mentioned upthread.

I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings. I think she thought that wearing earrings was a signal that I was both female and straight.

None of the rules are requirements these days, and most of us ignore a lot of them when we feel like it. But they're still out there, in the air.


DavidS - May 12, 2011 5:50:45 pm PDT #8050 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings.

Heh. That's such a sitcom kind of line.

"But you wear earrings!"


meara - May 12, 2011 5:54:50 pm PDT #8051 of 30001

I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings. I think she thought that wearing earrings was a signal that I was both female and straight.

hahahha! Earrings are pretty much the only jewelry I wear. Otoh, I have been known to wear earrings that are more "dykey" as part of my general style.


§ ita § - May 12, 2011 5:54:57 pm PDT #8052 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'd put jewelry for women almost on a level with cufflinks or tie-pins for men. Sure, they are part of a package, but really quite optional. Something that you wouldn't be surprised to see, but also wouldn't put as a requirement for presentability in the way that makeup might be, or hose.


Consuela - May 12, 2011 5:56:08 pm PDT #8053 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Total change of topic: did anyone share these graphics about sex from OKCupid?

[link]

Kinda cool. I am fascinated by the one with the slider, charting age, body type, sex drive, and self-confidence.


Amy - May 12, 2011 6:00:18 pm PDT #8054 of 30001
Because books.

The rough/gentle sex one makes a hell of a lot of assumptions about a lot of things. Smokers are more inclined to rough sex? In, what, Rebel Without a Cause? England is equated with gentle sex? Really?


Liese S. - May 12, 2011 6:03:58 pm PDT #8055 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I don't wear makeup or jewelry on a general basis. But I'm not a good representative sample.

I did get lovely handmade pearl earrings from the mom of the guest math tutor last week. They're beautiful! Then I had to hide my ears the whole week so he didn't notice I didn't have pierced ears. I suppose I could get something that converts them to clip-ons.

In terms of non-sequitor reasoning, one of the teachers at the school where we work on Wednesdays had the following exchange with one of her high school boys. "My friend likes someone, but I can't tell you who." "Then why did you start to tell me at all?" "Because you're wearing orange." Makes sense to me!


Kat - May 12, 2011 6:11:33 pm PDT #8056 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Please tell me you'll send them somewhere interesting if they still believe climate change is a hoax AND want to know where the bathroom is. Preferably where they'll experience a climate change in their pants.

This made me laugh so hard!

I want to go to the JPL open house, but instead I'm going to swim lessons, birthday party, a Big Sunday volunteer thing (YAY! I ♥ Big Sunday), a VVS Open House/Parent-Teacher conference thing.


Consuela - May 12, 2011 6:15:36 pm PDT #8057 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I must share this link:

[link]

It's a bunch of photographs of awesome men's fashion ads from the 1960s and 70s. Just fabulous.


§ ita § - May 12, 2011 6:20:51 pm PDT #8058 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Community, how so fabulous? Seriously.