macca
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Post by macca on May 1, 2006 19:45:19 GMT -5
^ ha, you're not alone there... claiming to "ache" for Logan was going a bit far though. Ew.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 2, 2006 0:43:42 GMT -5
I chalk it up to him being MA's first boyfriend. And a lot of the language that those girls use toward guys seem a bit far also - dreamy, gorgeous - especially Stacey.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 2, 2006 21:43:55 GMT -5
^ I suppose - and that's 13 yr old girls, I guess. Over dramatic.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 7, 2006 2:38:29 GMT -5
Well, I guess what I mean is some of the actions that are coupled with the using of those words. Like in Jessi & Dance School Phantom. They were driving and all of a sudden they yelled out "hey gorgeous, to some guy walking on the street." I guess this is another one of Ann's feminist injections. Since guys do to girls, it is only logical that girls should do it to guys to show that both genders are on par with each other.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 7, 2006 23:16:54 GMT -5
^ oh yeah, I noticed that as well. Although it struck me as feminist hypocrisy. If any of Ann's female characters had been wolf-whistled etc, the reaction would've been righteous outrage.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Sept 6, 2007 21:44:26 GMT -5
Jessi shouldn't even have 'boyfriends' at 11. Just goes to show how strange this world is. LOL at the Shadow Lake quote... Ah Jessi, already so experienced in the ways of men.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 7, 2007 0:15:00 GMT -5
^ Agree about kids not having boyfriends so young. That's why I always imagine the girls as way older - makes things like this easier for me to accept ;D
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 13, 2007 17:27:37 GMT -5
Besides, what 11-year-old uses a word like "profess"?
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Sept 13, 2007 17:47:47 GMT -5
I probably would have, because they used it in BSC Land.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 13, 2007 19:39:44 GMT -5
^ I might have too but I've been known to use some "Janine" words ;D
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 13, 2007 21:12:57 GMT -5
My Sunday school teacher in junior high (with whom I did not have a good relationship) liked to try to find words I didn;t know and give me a hard time when she succeeded. Janine words here too.
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alula
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Post by alula on Sept 14, 2007 3:24:53 GMT -5
My fourth-grade teacher accused me of cheating because no nine-year-old could possibly know all the words I used in my written assignments. The way those girls talk sometimes, it makes me think they've been passing steamy romance novels around with the BSC notebook, heeheehee.
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Sept 14, 2007 10:07:14 GMT -5
I've been thinking .maybe they made them so more advanced because they were those ages for so long and they could only do so much. I mean if they had aged normally , they would have been much older, and probably would have been doing osme of those things that we thinking "what 11 or 13 year old girl actually does that?"
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 14, 2007 16:25:40 GMT -5
^ You might be right. I never imagine the girls as 11 and 13 because so many things just aren't plausible to me if I do. Instead, I get around all of the things that would bother me by thinking of them as like 16 and 17. That's the great thing about reading is being able to imagine whatever you want ;D
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 14, 2007 17:03:03 GMT -5
Of course, some of what you imagine doesn't always make sense. Case in point, the same house down the street from me stands in for the Kishis' and the Delaneys'. It would be much more like the Kishis', I'm sure, and yet it does double duty.
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