It was at an EB Games that I had the most eyerolly experience. Fwiw, I wasn’t being hit on, just condescended to. Fortunately, while I didn’t like it, I’ve dealt with enough dumb boys (and girls) trying to keep me out that I just raise an eyebrow and go on my way. Seriously, I’ve never been condescended to as badly as…
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This! I hate walking into game stores and having to deal with some chucklehead. Even something as innocuous as sounding like “it’s really cool that you like games” can come off condescending as fuck. I’m a grown-ass woman, and I’ve been playing since before you were born!
Might I suggest the collected works of Douglas Coupland? Most famously the author of generation X.
So this is a little inappropriate, I know, but he is rocking that jacket!
Is there a way to set up a website to sell these for material cost? Or perhaps cost plus small planned parenthood donation? Maybe a way of getting people to send made ones to one central location? I realize it’s damn close to the March, but as someone pointed out, there’s a nuclear winter coming, so it pays to stay…
Welp, you’ve convinced me to knit one. Pink’s not really my scene, and so I was on the fence. But I’m a knitter, and if wearing one of these pisses off the kind of people who would vote for Trump, I’d better get my needles warmed up!
I’m choosing to believe the ‘scheduling issue’ is his way of bowing out gracefully after realising what a terrible mistake he’s made.
Also, as a parent, if I’m not going to let my son bash his head in playing football, am I going to take him watch some other person’s son bash his head in? At the moment, I’m leaning heavily toward no.
He was trying to get Paul Anka...
Dave lozo’s reply is awesome!
My thought about bad teams is more at the sub-college level: even bad teams there can produce good players. But if there’s no team to play on, that talent goes elsewhere, and football becomes more regional, like lacrosse, and in the US, hockey.
Fair point. Maybe I’m projecting :)
I was thinking about boxing, too, but I don’t know enough about it to comment even semi-intelligently.
That’s where I heard about it, too :)
And now I have a new resource. Thanks!
I understand your points, but I think that despite the mass of despret people looking for a way out, that football is in trouble. It starts with some parents taking their kids out, and then some schools (probably poorly performing high school teams) getting rid of their programs because of either lawsuits from injured…
Might want to try something like this, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993
I also won’t let my son play. Too damn dangerous.
Personally, I like the silent black and white movies she made. You have to have a piano accompaniment, of course - Hungarian is best (not the piano, dummy, the pianist. The best piano were hand made in the sixties in Haida Gwaii) - but you really get to feel like the artist is in the room that way.