The Whine thread.

[WarpGirl]

Well I put "romance" in quotes because it is not a hearts and flowers "happily-ever-after" double wedding at the end. My favorite part is when the "hero" tells the dying "heroine" I blight, and curse, and damn you! LOL. But Pride and Prejudice is the last word on romance.

[Misplaced]

Well I put "romance" in quotes because it is not a hearts and flowers "happily-ever-after" double wedding at the end. My favorite part is when the "hero" tells the dying "heroine" I blight, and curse, and damn you! LOL. But Pride and Prejudice is the last word on romance.

BWAHAHAHA!!! Now that's my kind of story. I'm definitely going to have to read it now.

[aadarshinah]

Ah, Misplaced, here we have to part ways. Pride and Prejustice is one of my least fav romances. Right up there with Jane Eyre and Romeo and Juliet. (Okay, the worst "romance" I've ever read is the Edward/Bella one in Twilight, but I think I've made my veiws quite clear on that on that thread).

[Misplaced]

Ah, Misplaced, here we have to part ways. Pride and Prejustice is one of my least fav romances. Right up there with Jane Eyre and Romeo and Juliet. (Okay, the worst "romance" I've ever read is the Edward/Bella one in Twilight, but I think I've made my veiws quite clear on that on that thread).

It's alright. I'm with you on Twilight though. But having very girly-girls for daughters, I still ended up taking them to see the films on opening night and reading the books. *le sigh* What I do for my kids...

I despise Romeo and Juliet and I'm ambivalent about Jane Eyre.

I think my current favorite "romance" is the film Date Night. Story of my life!

[aadarshinah]

I'm so sorry for you, Misplaced. Taking your kids to see those awful movies. Thank goodness my mom and I share most the same interests, and most the movies I want to see she does. We end up watching the new Star Trek movie together at least once a month... not to mention our netflix VOY watching...

[Misplaced]

I'm so sorry for you, Misplaced. Taking your kids to see those awful movies. Thank goodness my mom and I share most the same interests, and most the movies I want to see she does. We end up watching the new Star Trek movie together at least once a month... not to mention our netflix VOY watching...

It's my way of loving my girls just as they are. My mother had trouble understand me growing up because she's a ginormous foo-foo gal. LOL Here she had this tomboy who liked action films and a sci-fi geek who'd rather watch a football game than go shoe shopping. I think I still unnerve her sometimes with my odd ways. (Vegan, fitness fanatic, writer who half lives in imagination and is not all that interested in overly-girly things -- though I have softened a little over the years)... but she likes my TnT fanfiction! LOL

The biggest gift I can give my little ones is unconditional acceptance and I do that by enjoying things they like, even if I don't, sometimes. Truthfully, I don't consider it a burden. And I can always find a silver lining -- like the fact that the actor who portrays Carlisle Cullen is not hard on the eyes.

[WarpGirl]

The biggest gift I can give my little ones is unconditional acceptance and I do that by enjoying things they like, even if I don't, sometimes. Truthfully, I don't consider it a burden. And I can always find a silver lining -- like the fact that the actor who portrays Carlisle Cullen is not hard on the eyes.

LOL My mother the all-star highschool girls sports champ (summers she played with the guys), raised kids who played dress-up and were afraid of basketballs! You couldn't get more different. Yet we were loved and supported, and my mom tolorates this fanfic thing wonderfully.

Definitely read Wuthering Hights, and if you can see the 1939 movie with Lawrence Olivier do by all means. I despise Jane Eyre the book, but the Movie with Orson Wells is a treat. Also 1939.

But you don't read Romeo and Juliet for romance, you read it for the beautiful writing and Mercutio and Benvolio.

[aadarshinah]

My mother is honestly a saint. Anyone who could deal with my sister for as long as she has without going crazy deserves sainthood, at least. Though my dad thinks the both of us are insane for our syfy watching.... but that's another whine entirely. Still, my mother and I share a lot of the same interests, which can make things easier - and harder - at times.

And now I'm patiently waiting for said mother to come home, so that the dinner I've lovingly made can be eaten... It always works out this way. I make dinner slighly early, she runs 20 min late. I get a late start, and she's home early... le sigh.

[WarpGirl]

My whine: Kitty chewed all my phone cords so no phone!

[Silverbullet]

I thought that one of the females on t his board said she was a Feminist Mother. Honeybee is a feminist but since she has never been married it can't be her. Stand up and be counted. I would like to know what a feminist Mother is. Does she raise her daughter to dislike males?

[WarpGirl]

I don't remember that... Well I'm no mother and I consider myself a "lipstick feminist." I celebrate the differences between my gender and men, and I want to be valued for what I contribute. In other words... If I'm a lawyer working 100 hours a week, I want the same paycheck as the guy in the next office, and if I qualify to make partner first, give me the job. If I don't qualify than don't give it to me.

But I enjoy high-heels and good langerie, and don't feel the need to say that stay-at-home-moms don't work. Because they have the hardest job on the planet. True feminisim to me is women supporting other women no matter what they choose to be or do. I can't stand so-called feminists degrading other women who put their families before careers, or make sacrifices for their husbands ambitions.

[enterprikayak]

I dunno about anyone else, but I think I'd consider myself a "humanist" mother....each gender is equally great, IMO. Neither better than the other. I also teach them that all races, economic levels, sexual orientations, body sizes etc etc etc are all equal, and not to be despised or judged. She has several friends with 2 mommies, and so she knows that when she grows up she can marry a girl or a boy or nobody or whatever. The dog for all I care. As long as she's happy and safe.

I was born late in 1979, and though Veronica and Betty were always saying the phrase "women's lib" in my archie comics, I really have never felt oppressed due to my gender, it was like the battle was kind of already over from my POV, and so I probably am not quite as rabid as some other liberal minded "feminists". I have friends who are only 5 or 6 years older than me who have a HUGE so-called "feminist" chip on their shoulder still cause they lived thru a bit more of that "era" than me.

My little sisters (born 1990/3) think "feminist" is like a Grandma-word from the olden days. They don't need it anymore. They're on top of the world.

I think if someone was to try and, like, "male chauvinist" me nowadays, I wouldn't even be offended, I'd probably just laugh and pity the poor dim boob.

[aadarshinah]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: as long as you're not hurting yourself or others, I don't care what you believe and/or do. People should be judged on their merits, not on their race/gender/religion/nationality/martial status/disabilities/whatever else people judge other on. I've never felt oppressed for being a woman. In fact, when I get flack for something, it's for being an atheist. Which, if you ask me, is a slighly more enlightened thing to hate someone over than their sex. After all, you can choose your religion. You're born with your gender.

[WarpGirl]

Okay here is a real actual whine: Food packaging! I realize they have to make it safe to avoid tampering psychos, however what is the point of packaging food if the containers will not open! I want my boccocini darn it!

[Alelou]

Totally agree, especially since my husband destroyed the little rubber thingie trying (and failing) to get my son's mouthpiece out of his trumpet. Those things used to come free during every campaign season or every time a company wanted to market something, but I haven't seen one in years now. And I need one, damn it.