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[dreamer_easy]

Lloyd sent me a clipping of a thought-provoking op-ed: What Does 'Boys Will Be Boys' Really Mean?

Further to Mary's story about being pressured to have breast reduction surgery: according to the SMH, "Australian women's breasts are getting bigger, a new study has found."

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[jblum.livejournal.com]

One of the best realizations I had as a teenage boy was that being around girls *didn't* make me lose my self-control.

It did however make me really, really stupid.

I had to recognize that as well -- that I just didn't have a lot of experience points in such matters, so I had to be careful how I acted. But it also means if I do say or do something insensitive, I know it's not because I'm fundamentally a bastard -- it's because half my IQ points were being bypassed by an abruptly diverted flow of blood. And that always made it a hell of a lot easier for me to apologize if I did the wrong thing, because my pride (such as it was) wasn't so much at stake.

(BTW, completely different note -- how do you get your posts to default to purple?)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I have also experienced this blood drainage in the presence of the highly crushable.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Hasn't everyone?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on raising a young man well. I hope to follow in your footsteps should I be lucky enough to have a child.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's a kick in the pants for the factoid that women like bastards best.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]