I remember in Gilligan's A Different Voice, she describes boys' play as constituting a huge amount of negotiation--which game, who goes first, where home plate is, whether the invisible ray actually hit you, etc, with every boy jockeying for position.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Dec 21, 2010 1:18:52 pm PST #12424 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Connie Neil - Dec 21, 2010 1:20:19 pm PST #12425 of 30001
brillig
Working out the pack pecking order.
Cashmere - Dec 21, 2010 1:24:42 pm PST #12426 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My last text read: "Good luck with your job search. I hope you find one before you alienate all your family and friends with your hostility."
msbelle - Dec 21, 2010 1:25:50 pm PST #12427 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The good news in the mess of boy play is that aside from getting upset more than anyone else (like to tears everytime someone is upset), mac is THE BEST at negotiating solutions. We have had to model that behavior for him SO MUCH that he is now better than his peers.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 21, 2010 1:27:50 pm PST #12428 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Cash, what's going on with your legally blind sister and her busted car?
msbelle - Dec 21, 2010 1:28:15 pm PST #12429 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DJ, Wed it is. CANNOT WAIT!
Cashmere - Dec 21, 2010 1:29:18 pm PST #12430 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Nora, my dad gave them his car for four days. My BiL does have a license. But dad told him not to let my sister drive the car. He the found someone who could get them a new windshield at cost and paid for it. My BiL is going to install it this weekend. I hope nothing happens to my dad's car.
smonster - Dec 21, 2010 1:35:55 pm PST #12431 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
msbelle, received and backflung.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 1:39:35 pm PST #12432 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
he is now better than his peers.
That is most excellent.
Jesse - Dec 21, 2010 1:40:33 pm PST #12433 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
mac is THE BEST at negotiating solutions.
That's kind of awesome.
Less awesome? Many of the rest of y'all's situations.
I just bought a gift that seemed reasonably sized at the store, but now I'm dreading getting it to my parents'. Oops. The upside is that it's cooking pot thing on sale for $40 from $100.