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Post by greer on Sept 21, 2007 12:33:57 GMT -5
i don't mind it if it's a guy i'm actually dating.
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 21, 2007 13:22:47 GMT -5
I can't imagine my husband or most of our male friends calling a girl/woman any of those things either.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 21, 2007 16:57:51 GMT -5
I don't know if it's so much a feminist thing for me (since I'm not really a feminist, either) but just that they sound kind of stupid to me ;D Some words just "bother" me and these are some of them.
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 21, 2007 21:16:42 GMT -5
I know what you mean, ALN. Some are rather neutral words, like "fixing supper" instead of "making" or "cooking" or "getting" supper...but also I dislike "hubby" for husband. I'm not a feminist at all.
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Post by liss31d on Sept 22, 2007 8:26:35 GMT -5
Yeah I agree. I don't particularly like expressions like Chick, Babe, Hottie, etc... I just find them patronising... haha 'you have hair like a gossamer' is not appropriate either I guess ;D
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 22, 2007 10:54:37 GMT -5
I reread this one recently too and when Kristy is talking about how Claudia is not a close friend of her and Mary Anne's, she actually says that as far as she's concerned the best thing (or maybe it was one of the best things, but still) about Claudia is that her dad isn't Mr. Spier! Like, geeze Kristy! I'm sure she has more going for her than that.
Love the part when Stacey CRIES because Sam, the guy she's had a crush on for about a week, went to the movies with another girl. I felt bad for her but at the same time I was kinda like, "ok girlfriend, get a grip!"
Anyway I really love Kristy in this book. She's so likeable! I love watching her relationship with Watson grow. She seems like such a normal 12 year old in this one instead of the mini-adult all of the girls turn into later on.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 22, 2007 16:22:26 GMT -5
^ I just read this one and remember the statement about Richard, too. I always thought that was kind of mean. Agree about liking the relationship between Kristy and Watson. That is one of my favorite things about the books - watching her go from hating and resenting him to calling him "my dad" on the phone to 911 in Mr Mom. Very realistic the way things evolved over time, I thought. I can understand where her initial resentment towards him came from, especially with the statements she made about him being Karen and Andrew's dad. Made it seem like she resented the fact that they had a dad and she didn't. I can see some of that resentment towards Karen coming out in the LS books (though I know it seems that Kristy favors her and adores her in the BSC books). I don't like this one all that much, probably because I do like the "mini-adults" they become ;D and because it seems so different from the rest of the books, but I do enjoy parts of it.
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Post by greer on Sept 22, 2007 16:47:52 GMT -5
yeah. kgi has lways been a bit boring to me, because it's so realistic.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Sept 22, 2007 17:22:14 GMT -5
I don't like being called babe, sweetie, chick, ect. I don't really consider myself a feminist, either. Like what greer said, I don't mind if it's my boyfriend who's calling me those things. Although when he calls me babe, I say, "Why, yes, I am a big blue ox." 'Cause Babe was Paul Bunyan's ox.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Sept 22, 2007 18:58:57 GMT -5
i don't mind it if it's a guy i'm actually dating. I agree. The last guy I dated sometimes called me sweetie and I didn't mind. However, this guy I worked with who I hardly knew also called me that and I wanted to kick him in the balls.
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Post by Karen Brewer on Sept 22, 2007 21:17:51 GMT -5
For some reason it really bothers me when people call me "hun" or "sweetie". Maybe because most of the people that do it are people I don't really know, like customers and such. I've just never been able to do that to anyone else, especially people I don't know. It just seems patronizing.
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Post by blossom114 on Sept 22, 2007 22:37:36 GMT -5
i usually dont mind it if it's an older woman or something...kind of a motherly type of thing i'm weird liek that...if it's a guy though it creeps me out... unless i know him... if i know him and he's a friend then it's different.
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Post by Karen Brewer on Sept 22, 2007 22:55:20 GMT -5
^The funny thing is I tend to see it mostly from people my age--mostly girls--rather than older women or guys.
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Post by greer on Sept 22, 2007 22:56:15 GMT -5
it's better than "hey b*tch," which is also a popular greeting.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 22, 2007 23:39:23 GMT -5
^ Definitely better than that ;D
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