Comments on: Marbles

By: bitchphd

bitchphd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

That doesn’t seem fluffy to me at all.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Whups, I swear I’m gonna fire that incompetent copy editor! That fluff line should’ve been changed. It’s residual from an earlier incarnation of the post that really was fluffy. Of course, the more I got to thinking about the sexist social conditioning imposed on kids, the more pissed off I got, and the post lost a bit of its nap. Quelle surprise.

By: rhondda

rhondda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think it was Mary Daly who said something about what appears trivial is usually quite important. This was not fluffy alright. Anyway, where is the recipe that goes with the picture?

By: Sydney

Sydney — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hmm…so norris is encouraging a boy to kiss a girl even though she dosen’t want him to. And the reporters insisted that he do it three times all for a photo op. because that’s what she is to them- a great story.

some people kiss trophies, this young boy get to kiss a girl against her will.

Nope, we don’t live in a rape culture.. not at all…

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hey Rhondda–it’s baked mac & cheese from The Joy Of Cooking! And it’s spectacular! The hot smoked sausage is from Elgin, formerly the hot sausage capitol of Texas. The entire town is now a shill for Dr Fucking Phil, ever since he filmed himself giving them all get-real-life-coachings a few months ago.

By: manxome

manxome — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

That’s the best looking triple bypass I’ve ever seen!

Maybe Norris lost her marbles?

By: bitchphd

bitchphd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Well, part of the problem with the whole “make the boy kiss the girl” thing is that it not only compromises her, it compromises him. I don’t know that he “gets” to kiss a girl against her will–my presumption would be that it would be as socially awkward for him as for her, and that the other half of the offensiveness of the thing is pressuring him into kissing someone who’s unwilling, and pressuring her into enduring it.

But of course we can’t know, because no one asks the boys how they feel about it.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

There’s no doubt in my mind, DrB, that the boy was grossed out as well, since he is 11. At that age the male of the species is not just permitted, but also expected to openly nurture his socially-mandated disdain for the female. It’s not until later that the patriarchy teaches him to sublimate this learned hatred into porn addiction. Hahaha!

By: Jim McCulloch

Jim McCulloch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

When I was a kid, in antiquity, aka the 1950s, girls did not get to play marbles. Not with boys. Not with other girls. At least not where I lived. It was, I’d say, culturally forbidden. This doesn’t seem like much progress, that they can play, but are considered contest prizes.
Strangely, I don’t recall seeing kids playing marbles in many years. Maybe they play it indoors on carpets, which seems problematical, or on schoolyards under strict supervision. In antiquity it was an outdoor game, after school.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I was a kid in the 60’s, and I played marbles all the time. Nobody seemed to notice I was a girl. I kicked ass, too. But of course, I didn’t enter a national tournament.