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.
It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2018 12:38:43 pm PDT #29966 of 30002
brillig
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.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2018 2:46:42 pm PDT #29975 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Hil, I am so sorry about your experiences in high school. And I am glad you found the Buffista so young. I am glad I found the Buffista too, because without you guys I might not be so educated about things as I am sort of an ostrich about the news!
Zenkitty, it sounds like we had very similar experiences. I am wondering now if the reason my friends and I grew apart in 9th grade, which was basically because I just couldn't stomach (for no reason at the time) going to all the pool parties with everyone's dads seeing me in my bathing suit. But being in sixth grade and hearing dads say how good I looked in a bathing suit is in retrospect sick. And I just don't want to think about it because I have moved on
I can't imagine how much worse this news cycle is for people who have had worse experiences, because it seems like burying them is the only way to live your life as they are so pervasive