Girls thread cont.

Oh god the "screaming yelling crying" to be taken seriously thing is the worst. Having to first argue that you are having a legitimate feeling before you can express it is bullshit!

sometimes it was the only way to get past the "yeah, whatever" stage

any of you see that modern family episode? claire kept telling phil to try a wedge salad & he never did, and he had lunch w/a (male) coworker and they tried the wedge salad & he comes home and is like OMG WEDGE SALAD YOU HAVE TO TRY IT and she completely flips...

this behavior you are describing is super annoying and i am not denying that. it is. however, there's another side to this.

let me introduce you to my father, the inventor of everything under the sun from jazz to civil rights to the industrial midwest to outer space. he invented all of it. it's his. whenever i know something and he doesn't specifically remember telling me about it, he says "how do YOU know about (thing x)?!?!" all incredulously, like *I* could never have learned something without his very special help. it is super duper annoying.

i try to give credit where credit is due -- and like it well enough when people give me credit for introducing them to things -- but there is a limit to the amount i can care about attributing credit to someone for knowing about something before i do.

it is super duper annoying.

I feel like this scores highly on the "understatement" curve.

haha
understatement: invented by my father, 1975

he invented me, after all

from jazz to civil rights to the industrial midwest to outer space

^^ this particular array of inventions is making me giggle

funny because it's true
my dad invented those things and demands credit

other things he invented:
art arfons and the land speed record
boris yeltsin
spelling bees
tennis
soccer
motown

NASA
deviled eggs
chicken salad

New Orleans
learning languages
hiking

I just invented the word "insufferable." Do you think he will like it?

He not only knows that word, but...(he's not a bad person btw, just kinda full of it)

Too late, I made it up a long time ago just to describe him. He doesn't even know about it.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6104955/Rapist-next-door-alarms-victim

the rapist ACTUALLY SAYS:
Crofts told The Southland Times this week he knew his victim's address when he moved next door to her about three months ago, but claimed he had nowhere else to go.

He realised that she felt uncomfortable with him living next door, but he also felt nervous when he saw her because he didn't know if she would ring police, he said.

He had served his time in jail and wanted to live a peaceful life, he said.

"If I can get over it, why can't she? It's past tense."

i just... i can't even

i read that story this morning and it made me cry for her, it's so cruel and unfair.

Oh jesus, that is horrible.

Oh my god. Poor woman.

The worst part is that the guy is clearly at a very high risk of reoffending, which just just adds more stress to the situation for the woman.

I hate to say this but I hope she is able to move out & far away quickly before the worst happens. It's difficult to see this ending well for her with the lack of legal recourse or even protection. Also...FUCK I HATE THIS SHIT SO MUCH

Stories like this make me feel like going on a Dexter-style killing spree against rapists.

/The woman has an indefinite protection order in place against Crofts, but the order does not specifically say he could not live beside her./

I don't know anything about NZ law--what would be in this protection order if not anything about proximity? the article even says that he can see into her apt from his!

i know, it's crazy. i don't understand what kind of protection it must be if it doesn't prevent her own rapist from moving in next door.

BUT i hope the flipside of this is that it brings a huge gaping hole to light, within the area of laws that protect and serve victims of sex crimes, and now maybe something will be done about it.

it's really upsetting to me to think how terrible every day must be for her right now.

can someone link me to the wooing thread? sounds like it'll make me good and angry.

OH it is the one I started called Sandbox Romants. Vaya con Dios!

I found it.

it gets worse

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6112403/Rape-victim-harassed-for-years

so he's been harassing her with letters and sending his friends around to torment her, and yet there's nothing the law can do now that he's moving in next door?

getting pretty sick of seeing this condescending, women-hating shit on pinterest

http://images.piccsy.com/cache/images/im-a-girl-172414-500-500.jpg

boo

that was an "opposite of yay" boo, not a "spookin u" boo

Jesus fucking Christ.

I do all those things and they are very fun

i just hate the whole holier-than-thou, i-am-such-a-special-lady, all-other-ladies-who-aren't-like-me-are-whores, attitude.

i think i have been quite good bc i have not posted FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU on every single repin of that stupid poster.

haha I wonder if a Mormon posted it

i think there must have been some Mormon edict somewhere because all the church ladies i'm friends with on fb are posting every day about what they are thankful for

we are so grateful
for all our many blessings

I think that creating and reblogging that macro implies maybe those girls *should* do some of those things once in a while, loosen up, have some fun ;D

Oh i've done those things plenty. lol.

I LOVE pinterest but good god does it have a lot of shit like that on it. Also, religious crap.

i think i have been quite good bc i have not posted FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU on every single repin of that stupid poster.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

What is a "spookin u" boo? That sounds fascinating.

lol

Boo! Like a ghost would say.

Oh lols, I just thought about it and suddenly it clicked. I've been calling ilxors "boo" for so long that I forgot about the whole ghosties and spooks connotation.

also thinspiration pictures on Pinterest :P I mostly stick to the DIY & food categories and just ignore the general streams

Oh yeah I fogot about all the dieting and thinspiration stuff. I think I just sort of skim the general stuff and click on thing when my brain goes "OOOH SPARKLY PRETTY!".

Me too, pretty much! I think I have done exactly 0 of the things I've repinned. BUT I'm GONNA. I swear!

I've cooked some things that I've repinned and done one crafty thing but yeah, same here for the most part.

People on Apartment Therapy and my godawful conservative cousins are too into it, so I've avoided Pinterest out of sheer contrariness

look at tumblr instead, its the greatest

I don't even know what pinterest is but it sounds atrocious. Avoiding things I don't like has become a real skill.

It's great, isn't it?!