'Objects In Space'
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.
billytea: Hi everyone. Um... No earthquakes here. (Is that a spoiler? Should I be whitefonting?)
Erin: Worrying about the Rapture is on my list of shit to be concerned about. It's right under item 20,306: Worrying about corkboards becoming animate and eating me.
You guys make the Apocalypse fun!
Wow. Speaking of perception, Ben has a friend over. Apparently he's also in eighth grade, but this kid has to be six feet tall, and could probably throw me across the room. No way I'd think *middle-schooler* if I saw him on the street.
It would all be easier if English has a gender-neutral pronoun that wasn't plural. I don't mind saying "they" when I'm talking about unspecified persons, but when talking about someone - a baby - right in front of me, it doesn't sound right. If we could look at a baby and coo, "oh, isn't ** cute!" without having to say he or she or IT, knowing the baby's gender might not seem quite so important.
In older books (I noticed this most recently in Wuthering Heights, but I've seen it in other stuff from that era), it seems like people refer to children as "it" all the time, even when the gender is known.
My grandmother persisted in referring to me as "it" even when I was right there, until I was about ten years old. This may be why I dislike referring to children as "it".
Didn't people (at some point in the past) dress small children v. similarly up until an ages (not sure what age it would be) - i.e., long hair, clothing more like gowns?
Apparently he's also in eighth grade, but this kid has to be six feet tall, and could probably throw me across the room. No way I'd think *middle-schooler* if I saw him on the street.
Is he related to Laura's Brendon?
Because of the suposed Rapture, a woman tried to kill her two daughters and herself. And a man in Nairobi killed himself.
sumi, I think the Victorians and maybe earlier had kids of both sexes in long white dresses until toddlerhood.
Is he related to Laura's Brendon?
You'd think. Enormous sweet puppydog, too.
I was referred to as it for a while. And then mistaken for a boy into my 30s. So, cautionary tale.
I have (more) porn questions. Straight porn for gay guys--what about it makes it not porn for straight guys, or even more likely, straight women? I get that straight men might not want to watch solo jerkoff acts much, but when it's a het pair, what do you emphasise that makes it more about a gay viewer than a straight woman?
Didn't people (at some point in the past) dress small children v. similarly up until an ages (not sure what age it would be) - i.e., long hair, clothing more like gowns?
[link] The photo gallery there includes Franklin Roosevelt as a child with long hair and a frilly dress.