Traffic stops are serious business for cops, since you never know who's driving and what state of mind they're in, or how much artillery they're packing. However, this one, they got to take pictures and get souvenir whistles....
Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God. Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.
'Safe'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jun 30, 2007 2:58:47 am PDT #5645 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
P.M. Marc - Jun 30, 2007 4:38:43 am PDT #5646 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
... isn't 14 a little young to know all this? even if she is the co-president of the gay-straight alliance at her high school...
I don't think so. It just seems younger now than it did, say, when I was 14.
Not that I recall very many people being open about our sexualities in high school. The wave of uncloseted peeps started a year or two after I graduated.
Amy - Jun 30, 2007 4:59:29 am PDT #5647 of 10001
Because books.
When I was in high school, waaaay back in the early 80s, no one was out. Tha was in an East Coast, WASPy, upper-middle-class town and all, which might have had something to do with it.
But we were *dating* by fourteen, definitely.
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2007 5:03:43 am PDT #5648 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
No one was out in my high school. I can't imagine what it would have been like. A friend of mine (who came out in college) was taunted relentlessly for his effeminate manners. Hell, even the band teacher made fun of him and implied he was gay. The band teacher, btw, was closeted himself. Bastard.
Laura - Jun 30, 2007 5:15:33 am PDT #5649 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I knew people that were gay in HS. But that was the 60s. They were open about such things. My son will refer to someone at school as "gay" and I will start to give him the stinkeye because I don't allow this as a negative word. Then he'll quickly say, "I mean really, as in he has a boyfriend." So in the know. I've overheard them talking about bi kids too.
Kathy A - Jun 30, 2007 5:39:01 am PDT #5650 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Nobody was out in my high school, but a bunch of people came out within a few years of graduation. Most of them were not surprises to their classmates.
IcutecatphotoN, someone has a kitty crack pad.
Consuela - Jun 30, 2007 5:40:42 am PDT #5651 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It just seems younger now than it did, say, when I was 14.
Yeah. Also, I knew no one who was gay in high school in the late 70s/early 80s. Hell, I wasn't even entirely sure what it meant until college. Small New England town, where everyone was white and straight--of course now, I can look back and say, "oh, G is definitely lesbian!"
So, yeah, a different world for my nieces, who also live in a very diverse and progressive city.
Pix - Jun 30, 2007 5:46:01 am PDT #5652 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I has a girlfriend and is experimenting with bisexuality.
I have been lolcatting far too often.
Sheryl - Jun 30, 2007 5:50:50 am PDT #5653 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Back from taking Boots to the vet for her followup checkup. She's gained 1/4 pound since April, which is good. Now to wait for the test results..
DavidS - Jun 30, 2007 6:03:43 am PDT #5654 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think Rebecca Lizard was pretty sure of her sexual preferences by the time she was 14.