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(Potentially running) thread: Help! My daughter is a tween and the Mean Girls Era has begun!
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garrow
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Jesus F*cking Christ
I'm still having trouble with the idea of an 11-year-old killing herself. It's so sad, so senseless. And it points out how boys and men are so toxic to women that it's almost a miracle that people even exist.
Beyond all that, it just makes me angry to an unhealthy degree, where I'm wishing harm on the bullies and their parents.
Beyond all that, it just makes me angry to an unhealthy degree, where I'm wishing harm on the bullies and their parents.
OscarMadison
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Thinking about works of fiction that might be seen as twee and toothless today:
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack - In this `1972 novel my M.E. Kerr. the title character wrote this about herself on a bathreeom wall. She was hilariously maladjusted and would have been medicated and re-educted in a later era.
Election - I just know some jerkface is going to think a remake is a great idea. The only reason it exists is it was made just before social media took hold of our brains. Same goes for Heathers.
Way back in the dark ages, the schools in Lubbock published phone firectories of every student
. We were limited by the primitive technology of land lines. It didn't stop my friend, D. from informing me that all we had to do was hit *69. (She never met a diirty joke she didn't like, either.)
So when someone made a habit of calling me to congratulate me for being the ugliest girl in Lubbock, she got the number and enlisted her big borther, a popular cadet at College Station, to give their Daddy a call. See, when we found out who it was, we knew their brothers wanted to go to Aynem and they were courting D.'s brother for social capital. To be so big and proud of it, Texas is awdyl small in other ways. Anyway. D.'s Daddy's old green pickup got revved up that particular day because they were stupid enough to call during Spring Break. We thought it was funny. D.'s Daddy tried to be appropriately put out, but he loathed the family in question and always shook their hands extra hard at church.
D. the daughter of an SBC pastor, went on to open an occult store in San Antonio. (Next time, on Young Sheldon...)
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack - In this `1972 novel my M.E. Kerr. the title character wrote this about herself on a bathreeom wall. She was hilariously maladjusted and would have been medicated and re-educted in a later era.
Election - I just know some jerkface is going to think a remake is a great idea. The only reason it exists is it was made just before social media took hold of our brains. Same goes for Heathers.
Way back in the dark ages, the schools in Lubbock published phone firectories of every student
. We were limited by the primitive technology of land lines. It didn't stop my friend, D. from informing me that all we had to do was hit *69. (She never met a diirty joke she didn't like, either.)
So when someone made a habit of calling me to congratulate me for being the ugliest girl in Lubbock, she got the number and enlisted her big borther, a popular cadet at College Station, to give their Daddy a call. See, when we found out who it was, we knew their brothers wanted to go to Aynem and they were courting D.'s brother for social capital. To be so big and proud of it, Texas is awdyl small in other ways. Anyway. D.'s Daddy's old green pickup got revved up that particular day because they were stupid enough to call during Spring Break. We thought it was funny. D.'s Daddy tried to be appropriately put out, but he loathed the family in question and always shook their hands extra hard at church.
D. the daughter of an SBC pastor, went on to open an occult store in San Antonio. (Next time, on Young Sheldon...)
OscarMadison
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Sorryfor the typos. I should not try to post when I'm getting retinopathy treatments.
dixiehack
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Maybe this isn't the right thread but I need to process this somewhere.
Picked up my daughter this evening for our weekend together. While driving down to the gymnastics meet she starts going through her day in chronological order.
And then she gets to the end of the day and the school lockdown.
Right before dismissal she had gone to the restroom at her middle school when the announcement came over the PA for a lockdown and "this is not a drill." So she did as she was trained, stood up on the toilet seat and squatted her knees. And she held that position approximately 40 minutes. In the meantime she was texting her mom to say she loved her and texting her friend who had already gotten out to the buses to get a report on what was going on.
The whole time she is narrating this in a calm even tone, almost nonchalant but not quite. And I'm sitting behind the wheel trying with all my might not to have a come apart.
They finally got out when an assistant principal came in and told them to walk calmly to the buses. (To prove that she is indeed my own, she said "I did what she said, but instead of walking I ran to the bus, because I prefer not being dead.")
Turned out a kid sat on his iPhone and pocket dialed 911 with whatever the emergency sequence is that triggers it.
This damn country …
Picked up my daughter this evening for our weekend together. While driving down to the gymnastics meet she starts going through her day in chronological order.
And then she gets to the end of the day and the school lockdown.
Right before dismissal she had gone to the restroom at her middle school when the announcement came over the PA for a lockdown and "this is not a drill." So she did as she was trained, stood up on the toilet seat and squatted her knees. And she held that position approximately 40 minutes. In the meantime she was texting her mom to say she loved her and texting her friend who had already gotten out to the buses to get a report on what was going on.
The whole time she is narrating this in a calm even tone, almost nonchalant but not quite. And I'm sitting behind the wheel trying with all my might not to have a come apart.
They finally got out when an assistant principal came in and told them to walk calmly to the buses. (To prove that she is indeed my own, she said "I did what she said, but instead of walking I ran to the bus, because I prefer not being dead.")
Turned out a kid sat on his iPhone and pocket dialed 911 with whatever the emergency sequence is that triggers it.
This damn country …
BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Damn man. I'm sorry your daughter had to endure that...and not at all surprised she had to endure it. This damn country indeed
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