How about meheep...meheep in honor of hoss's meh thread?
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It was all I had on. I may have ditched the accessories, I dunno. Like I said, I was four, maybe five. My sisters did lots of weird stuff to me. Says more about them than it does me, I figure.
I think Deej nails it....It is the nasty-minded adult who makes it a big deal. It is the adult who, by their words and actions, is the roll model for how children see, in this case, women, and ultimately for little girls, themselves.
About that same time, sports teams started giving trophies to everyone who participated, not just the ones who'd done something above and beyond. So now that everyone's special, no one is.
So ridiculous.
Oh, man, if they banned camouflage clothing in my school, most of the kids would be wearing their pajamas!Remember when they banned camo clothes in schools? I forget why, I was in home school by then, but they did.
Sometimes I think homeschool is better. You can study in your pajamas if you want to, because it's the grades that matter, not the threads. You're free to figure out who you are, and there's none of this pressure to be "popular".
Then when you enter the world as this self-motivated, hard working, moral individual, everyone loses their minds...
So, really, there's no way to win.
Nothing like that happens over here. In fact, over here, that teacher would probably be officially designated by the government as a dumbsh1t (that's an official ASIO term BTW) and be forced to go toe-to-toe with a pissed off wombat.
LOL, damn that is just EVIL...lolWhen I was four, maybe five, my older sisters dressed me up as Wonder Woman (tin foil tiara, bracelets, spangled shorts, ugh) and locked me out of the house. Twisted little witches. This story has caused me years of embarrassment at family dinners.
Remember when they banned camo clothes in schools? I forget why, I was in home school by then, but they did.
Sometimes I think homeschool is better. You can study in your pajamas if you want to, because it's the grades that matter, not the threads. You're free to figure out who you are, and there's none of this pressure to be "popular".
Then when you enter the world as this self-motivated, hard working, moral individual, everyone loses their minds...
So, really, there's no way to win.
I've always heard the rap on home schooling was that kids do not get properly "socialized." What I remember of my formative years in school was a lot of little groups partitioning themselves off according to strict -- but unspoken -- rules of dress or comportment or neighborhood or . . . whatever it might be.
I look around now and I see almost nobody paying attention to what is going on around them, preferring to spend their time inside (or at least attached to) the little glowing screen.
It seems to me that we've given up on actual socialization in favor of an a la carte approach to life, where we can pick our own version of whatever we want and find a group of people who agree with us, thus making us "right."
I guess it's just the world moving on the way it does, but every time this observation slaps me in the face I keep thinking of that talking head In the little box from when I was a kid:
"Z-12 where are you? I need you, Z-12! I have things to do."
And plus besides . . . the world probably wasn't really the way I remember it being when I was a kid.
I'm probably missing something that never existed.
The world isn't what I thought it would be. It's a difficult, confusing mess of greed and control issues, and people don't seem to care about each other. I feel so out of place in this world that I'm more isolated and antisocial now than I was when I was a kid; and I live in a city. (sort of)
I swear, if it weren't for the tiny handful of good people in my life, I would have run away a long time ago!