To be clear…if you’ve been reading this blog AT ALL, you’ll be just as shocked as I am, that I’ve managed to raise a child with common sense bordering on prudishness, but somehow, THAT happened.
Caolinn: “The only good thing about the locker room in gym, is that now I know who I will and will not be hanging out with.”
Me: “What are you talking about?”
Caolinn: “Oh, you can totally tell who’s going nowhere in life, just by seeing their panties. You’re wearing a hot pink thong with a hashtag on the crotch? Pretty sure you’re not making good decisions. Same for the girls with ‘sexy’ written on the ass. You’re fourteen…who is that for? And those stupid Marvel panties that you and I saw in Target and made fun of? Yeah…I’ve seen them on two different people. Be your own hero, damn it.”
For the record, this is what she’s talking about, where feminism and common sense took a dump in Target’s Junior’s department.
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Very wise for her years. You must have done something right.
Mostly just not smothering them, I’m guessing. Lol
That kid might just have something there.
PS – Did Target happen to have something in a Wonder Woman? I would TOTALLY wear those! Don’t judge…
Um, if they did, I’d fight you for then. Wonder Woman rocks!
She’s all over my office! JJB actually bought me a laminated print for my first Christmas there of the Linda Carter incarnation. As kids, my stepsister & I used to beg her mom for the empty Leggs containers with the silver tops of the giant egg. We’d take turns being WW with bulletproof breasts (she wouldn’t let us use her fancy cuff bracelets). I think I’d win… 😉
OMG, I love everything about that. I miss L’eggs!
Awesome!!!!
🙂
I LOVE your daughter! 🙂
I love her, too. She, happily, gets more interesting every year.
My daughter and your daughter would completely get each other. Congrats on raising an astute teen with a sense of who she is beyond appearance – it’s not easy…I know! And those are terrible undies – shame on who made them!
Thank you!!! I knew I couldn’t be the only one who found them ridiculous. We should get them together so they can show us disdain in unison.
Teenagers are pretty great sometimes
They have do many awesome moments. 🙂 It balances out the eye-rolling.
Those are panties?
I would argue they’re symbols of misogyny, but…yes, they do work as ass-cover.
Ha!
Love the way she thinks!
Me, too, MOST of the time. 🙂
I actually never gave underwear much thought. My mistake. I agree, agencies that live off of intelligence gathered for predictive analysis will now be able to track behaviors by demographic by tracking the passive RFID tag sewn behind the label of all that deviant underwear. Hope for the future, 1. Zombie hoards, 0.
Lmao!!! Agreement that when we’re the last survivors, that we throw the people wearing shitty panties to them? And by shitty panties, I mean literally shitty and/or these.
I love your daughter. I want to adopt her.
She has expensive taste…you’ve been warned.
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THANKS, JOANN!
Beyond the I need a hero message, the hands of hulk reaching out from the crotch is a bit disconcerting
Right!? Like any teenager needs those green meat hooks near their lady bits?
My gay friend Amy used to work for a company that built data storage devices for the FBI, and she would FLIP OUT at the suggestion that that they look into panties.
Too close to home, Amy? That’s what I thought….
I have the word “sexy” on the ass of my underwear and I’ve made some pretty bad decisions in my life. Your daughter has a point. But to be fair, my ass is wicked sexy.
See, if it’s sexy…it doesn’t have to say a word…it can just be.
My ass can’t hear you. It’s too busy stopping traffic. Haters gonna hate.
I just laughed so hard…seriously…brilliant, sir. Almost as brilliant as your ass, apparently.
I thank you. My ass thanks you. Everyone came out a winner today.
What a hilarious point of view 🙂 I wish I would have had that kind of fore thought as a 14 year old.
PS I totally agree about thongs on kids what are the parents thinking?
Seriously!? What is happening in that house!?
LOL That’s awesome! I’d be so proud…
Sadly, this might be my proudest moment. lol
LOL! I doubt that 🙂
I told my step-daughter to just forget wearing thongs and opt for normal underwear since after 40 we just pray that our ass isn’t so wide that all underwear ends up in our crack anyhow.
Your kids are great.
🙂 They’re totally worth feeding.
Lol. That’s a relief.
She sound awesome. 🙂
She totally is…when she isn’t rolling her eyes at me. 🙂
Well said. The number of painful signs of misogyny always amaze me. I just hope my daughter can feel the same way when she gets to teenage land. Thanks for sharing this story (both my wife and I got a great laugh).
We just have to keep them out of the sexist panties, and the job is half done. At least that’s what I tell myself to help me sleep at night. 🙂
Guess who MY hero is?
your daughter.
and you for raising her.
swoosh!
Trust me, I’m just as baffled as can be about how she wound up being rad.
Bwahaa! This is totally like the conversations I have with my daughter!
God, there are more of them! 🙂
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See you soon on the interwebs, Laura!
LOL! Great discerning skills that one! 😉
I think there’s a thesis it in there somewhere.