22nd
$5
in general, i get uncomfortable at the sight of a mother punishing her child, even if that child is the biggest brat on the face of this earth. however, today, while sitting poolside, one mother took the cake.
her son had just socked his father in the face (he deserved it really, for that god awful twang of an accent) and was given a time out.
the boy began to whine… and the next thing i know, the mother is pulling her brightest shade of red lipstick, rouge, if you will, out of her vera bradley. she then turns to him and says “if you want to whine like a girl, then ill treat you like one, you’ll wear make up like one” while simultaneously drawing all over his face with the stick.
i was offended at my core. honestly, i am not sure what’s worse… the sight of a mother defacing, disfiguring, really, her own child… or the underlying understanding as to why there are homophobic, bigoted, insensitive men in this world.
he is, at the age of 5, being taught that crying and whining is something only women do, that to be a women is punishment, that to be feminine is wrong.
welcome to tallahassee, florida!
acasualfriday: have you heard of Okkervil
River?
kindofohyeah: that’s where we first met
kindofohyeah: the moon was full and your
eyes glistened with a spark that told me
everything
kindofohyeah: you held my hand, trembling,
but i never felt so safe
kindofohyeah: and then you and the rest of
the teamsters raped me for six and a
half days
kindofohyeah: you said my tears turned you
on and I tried to kick you, but you
eventually knocked me out…when i
came to, i was in love
i was on the train today when i saw a girl that i was mildly annoyed by carrying a shopping bag from forever 21. did anyone ever notice that the bottom of the forever 21 shopping bag reads JOHN 3:16?
so weird to me… and kind of wrong that they hide it on the bottom of an unknowing (and possibly non-christian) shopper’s bag.