Posts by Danielle
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to dyan campbell,
I'm teasing you, dyan.
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Or maybe that guy was just an asshole?
Yeah, I... don't think we can blame his behaviour, as we usually do, on Not Being Canadian. ;)
They just go out of their way to make you feel welcome here, don’t you agree?
They're now even crackers with the supposedly welcome-to-stay folks, I note, because when we went to get the wee fella his US passport at the Auckland consulate last month, the chap behind the desk told us that we should carry not only our passports, but also our Social Security cards with us at all times while travelling, because they were requiring actual proof of your Social Security Number for various things. (I never even had a Social Security Number until I was in my 20s, but our son had to apply for one with his passport.) It's all quite wacky.
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Girlfriend: if the skirt’s wearing you, instead of you wearing the skirt, take it off.
But whatever you do, don’t have a bikini on underneath it! Because they are ‘so immodest it’s sickening’ and also? ‘Extremely damaging to my thought life’.
(Oh, I feel a bit mean laughing at the poor lads. If only there was some way I could pretend to be the voice of god and say to them ‘honestly, just have a wank: you’ll feel better for it’.)
ETA:
Even avoiding a stumbling block is a stumbling block. It’s so… meta.
It *is*! Impressive.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Jolisa,
The 'free text' answers are my favourites.
For those of you trying to be modest, thank you, thank you, thank you! I certainly notice it and am grateful for it. For those of you who aren't sure about modesty, it is hard enough for us guys as it is; please don't make it harder.
I see what you did there. Snerk.
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everything becomes hyper-sexualised and hand-holding is one step away from fornication
Yes! Which reminded me of this: The Modesty Survey, in which several hundred teenage Christian boys get kind of freaky about what their female counterparts are wearing. (Example: over 50% of them think a shrug draws too much attention to the chestal region.)
Emma, I’ll go you halves in that pony for Lucy, kay?
I'll pitch in.
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Doesn't Mitsubishi have a model of car called the Diamante? I always thought that was ridiculous.
Tess's rather... expressive... description of short skirts was more thought than I have ever put into the entire 'sexual signals' issue. Obviously pondering how best to repress all teenagers makes everything so much hotter!
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Tess thinks that promiscuity leads to an inability to form long-lasting monogamous relationships (quoting her blog here, which normally I would avoid, but since she linked to it upthread...). I'm not sure how we get from 'short skirt' to 'promiscuous', though, and since several people have already asked that question to no avail, I presume we're SOL.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
Hey, you know what doesn't, and shouldn't, make a difference to the accessibility of a girl's vagina? HOW SHORT HER SKIRT IS.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
Ah, so your point is "she DID look slutty, though!" Nice to have it clarified.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
Oh, *well*, if you're dressing to 'attract the male gaze', that's clearly slutty, and so the teacher was bang-on. Or something. What's your point, Tess?