Some girls - the "tough" girls - would have fights after school, usually about a boy. The loser would usually have her outer clothes ripped off, leaving her to get through the boys waiting to see who lost so they could grope her ... or worse.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Sep 26, 2018 12:02:14 pm PDT #29965 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2018 12:38:43 pm PDT #29966 of 30002
brillig
Makes Hubby's parents giving him a gun to take to school for protection from the gangs that wanted to kill him seem kind of reasonable.
Toddson - Sep 26, 2018 12:39:00 pm PDT #29967 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
billy tea probably knows, but seemingly the Waiwondi (spelling?) tree kangaroo, after disappearing for 90 years and being assumed extinct has been spotted - alive and well. Obviously, it has earned its classification as "elusive."
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2018 12:42:05 pm PDT #29968 of 30002
brillig
"I go out of town for a few weeks and everybody says I'm extinct."
Zenkitty - Sep 26, 2018 12:43:57 pm PDT #29969 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
This is good precedent for the possible survival of the thylacine!
-t - Sep 26, 2018 12:48:13 pm PDT #29970 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hooray tree kangaroo!
Sheryl - Sep 26, 2018 1:09:29 pm PDT #29971 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
This week is just dragging....
Theodosia - Sep 26, 2018 1:12:30 pm PDT #29972 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ugh -- my NPR local talk program is going to be broadcasting the Kavanagh hearing all day tomorrow, and of course the other NPR station will be doing the same! It's important, of course, but I can only take it in small measured doses at this point.
Dana - Sep 26, 2018 1:18:33 pm PDT #29973 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I keep remembering and then forgetting things. I don't have anything that could be classified as an assault, which I know makes me very fortunate. But there definitely were times when I was a sexual target because I was female, and at least one of those times involved boys who were my friends.
And yet I remember these things, and I think, yes, this is part of it, part of rape culture and toxic masculinity, and then I just...forget about them. Because they're classed in my mind as just part of the experience of being female. Of course 14-year-old girls are sexual targets at all times to men of all ages. Shrug. It is what it is.
And then the next horrific story comes around again, and I think how fortunate I am to not have a horrific story of my own, and eventually, I remember again.
-t - Sep 26, 2018 2:14:13 pm PDT #29974 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Dana. Yeah.
With you on that, Theo.