Posts by Emma Hart
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Funnily enough there were two generations of good cricketers among them, some playing for New Zealand. Does that mesh with your dominant hand/cricket bat theory, Kyle?
I feel a bit guilty if I don't mention that when I was thinking about elegant leftie batsmen, the guy playing the straight drive in my head was Stephen Fleming who, while he bats left-handed, is actually a rightie.
It's also a shameful secret how much I would have liked one of my kids to be left-handed. I had to restrain myself from trying to force them to use their left hands when they were little. I'd have liked to be not quite so outnumbered.
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Not withstanding the enlightened PAS female readership who were quite possibly fierce independent enlightened girls and realised early on that they were in charge ...
I'm not sure 'fiercely independent' is compatible with the emotional shit-fest that is adolescence, and gender is pretty much irrelevant to that.
So they got the contraception bit in at the end there, but I think it could have been a little more WTF? You're not using contraception? Do you actually want a baby right now?
See, I see someone who's scared, and my gut instinct is that the first thing she should be told is that there's nothing wrong with her. Possibly not wanting the lecture is one of the reasons she's directing this question at magazine.
What is different from 'back in my day' is that the average age of first period for a Kiwi girl is now TEN. They're trying to deal with those hormones at an age where some of them still aren't allowed to walk home from school by themselves.
Perhaps in all this discussion of the pressure on young women, we need to think about how we parent our boys too. Accepting that they are struggling to contain their feelings is ok, but so is teaching them to respect women.
I'm not convinced that it's constructive to have 'things we tell boys' and 'things we tell girls'. The basic pressures are the same. We hunted high and low for good puberty books for the children (partly because of my requirement that they not assume that everybody is straight), and we made sure both kids read both books, so they knew what was going on with the other gender as well.
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Do you know if there's any correlation between left-handedness and increased co-ordination? At one stage I seem to recall seeing that the top target-shooters in the world were all lefties. My Jennifer (a lefty) is lethal with a rifle, causing any observers to comment that they wouldn't want their spouse to be quite such a good shot.
Not that I've run across in my reading. At the other end of the spectrum, I'm a really terrifyingly terrible shot myself. But left-handed batsmen look more elegant than right-handeds. She ever come at you with a cricket bat?
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Then I had a daughter ... now I'm a born again Puritan.
This issue's one of those times when I feel like I might have dropped in from another planet. People keep telling me this will happen, but my daughter is eleven, I wasn't shocked by the Girlfriend content, and I can still remember what it was like to be a teenage girl. I believe the biggest thing 'sexualising' me was all the rampant sex hormones running round my body.
I did manage to work out how to snog boys in parks all by myself, though.
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So while your specialist lefty tools are ridiculously over-priced.... at least some of it is probably in the quality.... An equivalent quality righty tool would probably not be found in the $2 shop, or even for $5 at the supermarket?
I can't attest to the quality of the scissors, not having bought them. But good dressmaking and hair scissors are always expensive. But the can opener, which has un-rounded hard hollow plastic handles, was about twice the price of a right-handed equivalent.
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One advantage I've noticed in being a computer using lefty is that mice/mouses are (generally) on the right hand side, leaving my writing hand free to do the writing thing.
The one that gets me, where we end up better off than right-handeds because of a conventional arrangement, is 'fork to the left'. If there's no knife involved with the meal, I can just pick up the fork and eat. Everyone else at the table has to switch hands.
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I always thought that "reduced appreciation of differences in colour' was just part of the condition that is being a heterosexual male?
Scarlet, crimson, cerise and vermillion are all just red to me.
I have this theory that men see in EGA. This handily eliminates all those colours that my partner swears are actually foods. Salmon, peach, apricot...
Cos lift buttons tend to be located to the right of the doors so if you're left-handed you have to reach across your body and swivel to the right to push a button, whereas a right-handed person just sticks their arm out.
Indeed. As all the light switches in our house are positioned so that, if you're walking through the door into a room, the switch is on your right. Bollocks aside, it's not really a problem unless you're carrying an armload of stuff.
My mother in law is a lefty and reports on being forced to write right handed at school, and having a tennis racquet strapped to her wrong hand presumably in an effort to wipe out the evil that is wrong-handedness.
A tennis racket? Dude. That's bizarre. My dad just got hit. By my schooldays, we were enlightened enough to just make the lefties sit on the ends of the rows.
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As for HC post-politics, she might just choose to retire to the feminist lesbian wicca orgy that Wishart fantasises about when he jacks off every night.
You just made me think a bad thing about possum fat. Eeew.
Oh, my poor brain.
There's a nice coven in the Wairarapa. I can see her as a Greytown Wiccan.
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His speechwriter is apparently some 26-year-old wunderkind called Jon Favreau. (No, not that one.) And a coupla other young whippersnappers.
Thanks -- fascinating story. Trivia: he has a Jesuit education.
Thanks, Danielle, I had been idly wondering who wrote those words and how much input the candidate had. And now I wonder how bad it is that I think Jon Favreau is cute as a little button.