macca
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Post by macca on May 22, 2006 6:08:26 GMT -5
Oh, FFS!
Karen's female next-of-kin also knew how to marry money! She snagged a REAL LIVE millionaire! Now that's nothing to be sneezed at. Too bad she obviously signed a pre-nup and was reduced to a lifetime in the Little House after the divorce.
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Post by aln1982 on May 22, 2006 7:44:28 GMT -5
Hah! Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but since I just read Claudia and the Middle School Mystery -- when they're going to break into Shawna's locker, Dawn says, "Okay, man your post." Stacey comes back with "Don't you mean woman my post?" This quote sticks out in my mind too. I found it pretty ridiculous.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 22, 2006 20:33:06 GMT -5
^I would probably say something like that, but see, I'd be joking. The BSC members aren't joking when they say things like that.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 23, 2006 0:16:16 GMT -5
^ How do we know that they are not joking though?
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Jun 8, 2006 2:29:38 GMT -5
The 'used up' cracked me up. Dawn goes on the spiel about some women waiting until they were 40 to have babies. Earlier they were saying how if 42-year-old Sharon and Richard had a baby now, they'd be too old and tired to do stuff with the kid in 10 years. Anyway, Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies has a ton of feminist stuff. And hey, male/male couples! How progressive.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 8, 2006 20:54:21 GMT -5
The ghostwriters really stretched themselves for feminist outrage, didn't they?
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 8, 2006 22:40:48 GMT -5
^ you got that right. Ugh, I never noticed it as a kid, but reading it now is SO irritating.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jun 11, 2006 20:35:06 GMT -5
I know...I just read "Claudia and the First Thanksgiving" and it was, like, every second word in that book.
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Post by greer on Jun 12, 2006 1:00:47 GMT -5
The BSC definitely turned me into a 7-year-old militant feminist who made sure everyone said "he or she."
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 12, 2006 6:25:00 GMT -5
^ ha, Ann would've been proud. I'm sure that's exactly what she was hoping for ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 30, 2006 8:18:15 GMT -5
What's really funny is a lot of my writing books and professors in college preferred it if you didn't use use "he or she". But "gender neutral" language was preferred - to make Ann happy.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 30, 2006 18:43:59 GMT -5
^ The problem with "gender neutral" in the English language is that there's not one generic term and so he/she is really the only grammatically correct option, which sounds awkward and annoying. A lot of non-fiction books these days will, in some instances use 'he' and other instances use 'she', which is probably the best alternative.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jan 31, 2008 16:54:59 GMT -5
Bumping up a pretty old thread...but I randomly thought of this while rereading Shannon's Story. Do you think Greer could have been named after Germaine Greer? Ordinarily, I'd say that was a huge stretch, but the BSC powers that, um, were tended to lean toward the heavy-handedness when it came to feminism.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 31, 2008 17:01:29 GMT -5
^ I'm really dumb sometimes ;D but not sure who Germaine Greer is. Now I'm interested. ;D
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Post by greer on Jan 31, 2008 17:14:38 GMT -5
i was thinking greer garson the movie star--it rhymes with greer carson.
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