The Blah of my life
I live a pretty boring existence. Some may argue differently, maybe it's a lack of creativity. Since my last post, not much has happened that is inspiring me to words of either humor or wisdom. To summarize: booked in about 5% of my sales for the year on Monday (yeehaw!), good training week (except my tp going down on the ice on Wednesday), nice ride on the breakfast ride yesterday (good legs and conversation), nobody too pissed at me that I know of.
We are having a couple of teenage girls stay at our house for the weekend for a youth convention. For those of you doing the math out there, that means there are now 8 females in my house to me being the only male. The good news is that two are dogs and one is a cat. The bad/good part is that 4 are teenagers. The funny part was that they had some free time yesterday afternoon (3 hours, remember the number) before the evening program (services and a dance). The two guests (my daughters were out of the house) spent 2 hours getting ready (yes they were actively getting ready - showers, hair dryers, etc.) before going over to our friends house for dinner. When we got to their house (they had 5 boys staying at their house), introductions were made. Now keep in mind that this is less than an hour before they have to be at the evening program, and it will take 10 minutes to drive there, so really looking at about 40 minutes to departure time and dinner needs to be consumed in that time. NONE of the boys was even considering getting dressed yet. My guess is that their last shower was probably the day before at the most recent.
What is it about society that puts this pressure on females? Are they doing it for themselves? Do they really think males are so shallow as to be influenced by such efforts? The good news out of this is that my daughter changed and got ready in under 2 minutes after her gymnastics meet at some flea bag gym in Rossford.
Maybe I do have some influence after all.
We are having a couple of teenage girls stay at our house for the weekend for a youth convention. For those of you doing the math out there, that means there are now 8 females in my house to me being the only male. The good news is that two are dogs and one is a cat. The bad/good part is that 4 are teenagers. The funny part was that they had some free time yesterday afternoon (3 hours, remember the number) before the evening program (services and a dance). The two guests (my daughters were out of the house) spent 2 hours getting ready (yes they were actively getting ready - showers, hair dryers, etc.) before going over to our friends house for dinner. When we got to their house (they had 5 boys staying at their house), introductions were made. Now keep in mind that this is less than an hour before they have to be at the evening program, and it will take 10 minutes to drive there, so really looking at about 40 minutes to departure time and dinner needs to be consumed in that time. NONE of the boys was even considering getting dressed yet. My guess is that their last shower was probably the day before at the most recent.
What is it about society that puts this pressure on females? Are they doing it for themselves? Do they really think males are so shallow as to be influenced by such efforts? The good news out of this is that my daughter changed and got ready in under 2 minutes after her gymnastics meet at some flea bag gym in Rossford.
Maybe I do have some influence after all.
posted by ask at
7:06 AM
3 Comments:
During late childhood and early adolescence, girls often feel pressured to comply with societal notions of physical beauty (Freedman, 1986). The present sample of girls explained that Barbie dolls represent perfection; many noted a simultaneous striving for, and dislike of, perfection. Torture play, entailing the damaging of toys, is a common way of expressing hostility and aggressive feelings during childhood (Turkel, 1998), and for these girls, may be a way of expressing their ambivalence about becoming women and adopting a feminine gender role.(kinda creepy, eh?)
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Society, peers, family, barbies? It's hard to pin it down, but it sucks. I'm glad my parents viewpoint was more like yours. Bikes not Barbies!
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rachel, At
5:47 PM
Rachel,
There's still the question of your shoe collection, though.....
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Crawford Tillinghast, At
4:03 PM
Don't be confused, Will. It's not a symptom of societal sickness if a girl likes shoes; only if her feelings of self-worth is dependent on said collection or the likes. Collecting shoes is no different than collecting bikes or stamps whether it be a man or a woman doing so.
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rachel, At
6:27 PM
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