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Post by zryson on Sept 10, 2014 15:23:44 GMT -5
Absolutely, I knew girls/women who were like that. I like unconventional people, and people who arent afraid to embrace their own identity regardless of what wider society thinks. All too often, people get pigeon-holed by other people, they want you to be as they see you, not as who you might be.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:24:06 GMT -5
Speaking of backwards hats, another one of my hall-mates always wears backwards hats even when its a blistering 98 degrees here in Atlanta. Could you arrange to have him pushed down the nearest flight of stairs, please? Humanity thanks you.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:25:02 GMT -5
We've all seen fictional stories about girls who like to play rough games like the boys-- i.e., "tomboys." Occasionally I've come across people telling real stories about knowing one, but I myself never did. Did anybody here grow up knowing a girl referred to as a "tomboy?" Rings a bell, definitely, though offhand I couldn't provide any examples.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:26:50 GMT -5
We've all seen fictional stories about girls who like to play rough games like the boys-- i.e., "tomboys." Occasionally I've come across people telling real stories about knowing one, but I myself never did. Did anybody here grow up knowing a girl referred to as a "tomboy?" Yes. One of my best friends growing up (she was the daughter of on of my mom's childhood friends who was one of the few people I remained friends with as kid despite moving seemingly every year to a different school and neighborhood or state) was quite the tomboy. She was a bit of a country girl, rode horses but also loved riding dirt bikes with her brothers and all kinds of "boy stuff" so everyone called her a tomboy. Until they saw her bedroom, which was the ironic part, as it was all frilly linens and pink and butterflies and about as "girlie" as you could get. It's a bit funny you bring this up now as I just talked ot my mom on Sunday and she mentioned having talked to this girl last week because she was planning her folk's 50th wedding anniversary and invited my mom, but also wanted her to extend the invite to me (I won't be travelling back to CT for it, but it did bring back a wave of nostalgia of the times we had as kids. -M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:26:59 GMT -5
Alright Dan B. you need to give your cats the right inspiration to wear those hats.... -M Looks like my Allie. Minus, of course, the helmet. I'm pretty sure mine would require sedation for that to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:29:25 GMT -5
Looks like my Allie. Minus, of course, the helmet. I'm pretty sure mine would require sedation for that to happen. I personally think the owners told the cat those mounted deer heads and antlers could just as well be cats to intimidate it into wearing the helmet in lieu of sedatives. -M
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 10, 2014 15:30:16 GMT -5
We've all seen fictional stories about girls who like to play rough games like the boys-- i.e., "tomboys." Occasionally I've come across people telling real stories about knowing one, but I myself never did. Did anybody here grow up knowing a girl referred to as a "tomboy?" I've known quite a few my whole life, though I've seen fewer as I got older.
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Post by the4thpip on Sept 10, 2014 15:31:28 GMT -5
We've all seen fictional stories about girls who like to play rough games like the boys-- i.e., "tomboys." Occasionally I've come across people telling real stories about knowing one, but I myself never did. Did anybody here grow up knowing a girl referred to as a "tomboy?" Yeah, a girl from my class called Beate. She grew up to be a lovely lesbian. In related news, I accompanied one of my clients to court today who is a pre-op, female to male transsexual Turk, just out of his teens. Was in front of the judge for being caught on a long distance train without a ticket eight times last year. He had his first girlfriend at the time, and she lived in Frankfurt. The judge went easy on him when I pointed out how overwhelming it must have been to finally find acceptance and love in his situation. I cringed a bit when the judge looked at the client's rap sheet from his teenage years (couple of burglaries for which he did time in a grown women's prison because there isn't a single girl juvie jail in German) and went "those aren't exactly girl crimes!" But when my client described that he paid twice what he had to for his monthly bus pass now because the welfare-sponsored one has his still official name on it "and then there'll always be arguments because I don't look like a woman and they say I stole it or borrowed it illegally"; the DA looked very moved. The judge ended up giving a fine to him, saying he'd intended to go harder on him before the trial "but sometimes those trials turn out differently than we expect."
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 10, 2014 15:33:00 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:36:23 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version? For the same reason a palindrome isn't one, I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 15:37:23 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version? The term you are looking for is "breev", as made famous by Jon Glaser on the greatest show of all time, Delocated.
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Post by zryson on Sept 10, 2014 15:51:56 GMT -5
In the gay community I see a lot of women who turn conventionalism of what others expect upon them, on their head. I think that's one of the reasons I've always admired strong women. Because they arent afraid to be who they want to be, regardless of the criticism heaped upon them. Too often in life, people live through the prism of somebody else's eyes and it often ruins their life. Or they become needlessly bitter and hardened.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 10, 2014 16:04:28 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version? What's etc?
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 10, 2014 16:22:38 GMT -5
abbr.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 10, 2014 16:37:33 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version? What's etc?
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