More gender discussion
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Modern Kinder Egg toys are shit. You Americans dodged a bullet there, not having another part of your childhood nostalgia destroyed.
Every Easter and Christmas here they release giant versions, which are about five times the size (and cost ten times as much). Every time I'm stupid enough to buy some instead of having some super constructable thing inside, they invariably have some cheap shitty soft toy, the likes of which you would find in a 1 $your_currency claw game.
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That's an actual emojicon?!
Wow.
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Are your kids homeschooled? If they're not, they will be influenced by teachers and other kids, some of whom are exposed to TV commercials And your kids would probably see commercials on their way to school and back. Even if they're homeschooled, they probably play with neighboring kids. Even if you remove the most obvious and direct influences, you can never remove all the subtle and indirect ones.
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Even if you remove the most obvious and direct influences, you can never remove all the subtle and indirect ones.
Just lock the brats in an empty cellar. No more cultural influence problems!
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Are your kids homeschooled?
Yes.
Even if they're homeschooled, they probably play with neighboring kids.
There aren't many kids their age in our current neighborhood, and our last neighborhood wasn't very friendly. Do they have friends they play with? Yes. Have we removed all the subtle and indirect influences? No. We aren't Big Brother.
Actually, there is a sign that we are doing a reasonable job. We have some friends who raise their kids very similar to how we raise ours. Their oldest and our oldest are pretty good friends. They are such good friends, in fact, that when they play dress-up, my daughter will even let him borrow her dresses.
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BTW, you're outdated--the drag queens have been disuninvited.
Don Surber's probably got the funniest take: "OK, so the men who pretend to be women to pick up men are offended at the men who pretend to be women to pick up women."
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I can't even tell when I'm trolling on this sort of thing any more.
Aren't you a pantrollual panderfluid pandesomething-or-other?
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Good for all of you, then. I wasn't trying to judge how you raise your kids (even if I had some of my own, it would be none of my business how you raise yours), I just wanted to know more about what possible cultural influences could remain.
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It is now... (well, last week when I made it anyway.)
What would be awesome, but probably too much work, would be if you could get that to generate a different, random set of arrows every time it's invoked.
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@boomzilla said:
I can't even tell when I'm trolling on this sort of thing any more.
Aren't you a pantrollual panderfluid pandesomething-or-other?
That doesn't seem quite right. Some form of dextroll seems more accurate.
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dextroll
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http://minx.cc:1080/?post=358031
Slate looked at the traffic NY Magazine was pulling in with its Cuckold Trolling, and, of course, being Slate -- and therefore click-hungry and shamelessly derivative -- said "Let's think of a story that will bring us some of those Cuckold Revulsion clicks!"
The story is apparently about a guy who enjoys grilling and feels really guilty about it because it's such a stereotypical masculine thing to do.
I hate how much I love to grill. It's not that I'm inclined to vegetarianism or that I otherwise object to the practice itself. But I'm uncomfortable with the pleasure I take in something so conventionally masculine.
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Looming over the coals, tongs in hand, I feel estranged from myself, recast in the role of suburban dad.
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At such moments, I get the sense that I've fallen into a societal trap, one that reaffirms gender roles I've spent years trying to undo. The whole business feels retrograde, a relic of some earlier, less inclusive era.I take food prep a little too seriously, curtly brushing others out of the way when I step up to the kitchen counter. In my online dating days....
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I came across one in which two colleagues and I stand in a semicircle around a kettle grill...This picture captures so much of what delights me about grilling and so much of what embarrasses me about that delight. On the one hand, there's the peculiar alchemy of sun and smoke that makes summer days sprawl. On the other hand, it bears the stain of unintentional masculine cliche.
It must suck to go through life hating one's self.
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For the people trying to tell me that US department stores don't organize their toy aisles by gender, Target has promised to stop doing that thing you guys said they never did.
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I like steak and dresses.
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Yes, it does. sigh