Ha! Yeah, your family was not wrong. I can’t be mad at your mom though, I legit had the biggest crush on Gilbert Blyth when I was growing up. ;)
I would totally support you in this. The Importance of Being Earnest is my very favoritest thing that Oscar Wilde wrote. ;)
Come to think of it, Gilbert DOES have a nice ring to it. :P
NOPE! That doll IS gorgeous but my bestie knows me better than that. She got me the classic style one in all her Divine inspired glory. The tentacles are a bit funky on this one but I still love it precisely because they didn’t shy away from giving her a big belly and double chin. I keep it up on a high shelf in the…
Yep. I just went doll shopping on Amazon this morning looking specifically for a Kristoff doll as a “complete the set” Christmas present for the kid and there’s at least four different versions of him and over a dozen different Anna/Elsa dolls some with “deluxe” costumes with the release dates noted. Some of the…
You’re welcome. Thank you for sharing too. It can be pretty scary to see someone you care about sink into themselves like that. My brother literally sat alone in a basement apartment drinking and playing videogames for two years after he got out. He only stopped when he’d burned through his savings and had to get a…
He’s doing better now but it took a good five years. One of the best things he did for himself was find a creative outlet and a couple of hobbies, and then used them to connect with other people who shared those interests. He was never willing to get traditional mental healthcare, but the friendships (male and female)…
Fine by me. If you ever have the opportunity to spend time with a person who has been removed from society for a time and placed in a gender segregated environment, by prison or deployment, I encourage you to do so. They can articulate their own experiences a lot better than I can.
You seem to be stuck on the idea of sexual attraction and the objectification of potential partners. It’s possible that homosexual men in the Navy may come away from that experience less likely to objectify other men, in the same way that I am seeing a lot of social media posts from men who have served alongside…
I think you are misinterpreting my list of “things” to mean objects to which a man should be entitled, which is not how I intended it at all. I was talking about the effects of deprivation on the human mind, and that includes social deprivation. You don’t think that interacting socially (I actually wasn’t referring to…
Humans are social creatures. Companionship absolutely is an ingredient needed for a healthy lifestyle. There’s actually quite a lot of scholarship on the health effects of social isolation. You don’t have to like how I worded it, it was a hastily composed comment, but being totally removed from all interaction with…
Just being in the armed forces can be pretty dehumanizing at times, regardless of combat experience. Put a bunch of people in a grey metal box and keep them underwater for three months at a time without sunlight, fresh air, or fresh food (and at the time no women) and strict schedules and regulations are about the…
My brother was on a nuclear sub for a few years and once in a conversation about how safe he thought he was from the radiation, he said that the most dangerous thing on a submarine were bored sailors who did dumb shit just to pass the time (and this was before women were allowed onboard). He didn’t explain further and…
It was a pretty intense exchange but I wasn’t so far gone that I lost perspective. He really just wanted me to play with him and he was feeling super frustrated that I was being so withdrawn. (His acting up was a bid for attention.) It was a wake up call moment for me though, for sure. I’m usually a lot better at…
I just want to say...you’re not alone. Mine is also three and he’s also the product of unfortunate circumstances. It’s a rough age even without my depression and anxiety acting up. The other night he was acting up while I was feeling really down, and he started SCREAMING at me to “Be Happy!!” and I just...cried. It’s…
This is actually what makes me, a white af lady who’s studied greek theater, really interested in seeing this movie. A review over at Vox does a good job of outlining the parallels between the play and the movie for those interested in exploring that angle. http://www.vox.com/culture/2015/1…
It’s being reported elsewhere that once the landlord opened the door, members of the public who had been gawking outside came in too. (Including a mom with her kids and a dude walking his dog.) Won’t be at all surprised to find things were taken from the home as “mementos”.
Nine or ten years old. Overweight. Dark hair. Laying on the couch playing with my Barbie dolls. My dad walks in. I don’t remember if there was much preamble but I distinctly remember him asking “Are you ever going to look like that?” Meaning the fucking Barbie. It was during a time when the adults in my life had…
Huh. I’ve been watching Brave a lot lately, thanks to a three year old fan in the family. I never thought it was “undeveloped” but then I read a lot of Celtic mythology as a kid and was super into highlands romance novels for awhile as a teenager soooo, maybe I just had the background reading to fill in any gaps in…