I’ve been funny my whole life, but looks don’t count - thanks!
He made other remarks too, like when I offered to bake something he couldn’t eat and wave the pic at him, he said he’d prefer a photo of me naked.
If he offers to mow my lawn again, I will politely decline.
Wow.
Creeper alert!
It’s…I mean…I can’t help how I look, okay? I even showed him old photos of my parents.
And I’ve heard this shit since I was a teenager and I don’t even have large mammaries!
Maybe he’s into slim. It doesn’t sound like he’s figured out how to talk to girls though. He also doesn’t seem to know that you have to learn how to talk to girls like they’re peoples, so it’s unlikely he will even begin the journey.
He’s 65, and I think he’s married. I think he just doesn’t give a goddamned fuck and thinks that’s what women want to hear in order to get them indebted to him. In any case, he ain’t mowin’ my lawn again.
I do must remember to let him know that while I’d love to be courteous and compliment him in kind, I would have to lie through my bloody teeth in order to do so.
And he has triggered some feelings and memories I’d really rather not deal with, you know? I mean, my own bloody father told me I was sexy when I modeled a pair of flared pants with embroidery on the flares in front of my mother and he. It totally embarrassed me; I didn’t feel “sexy”. Before he said that, I felt like a well-dressed 12-year-old American girl. Afterward, I felt dirty. And I never discussed it with him. I wish I had.
Having to subjugate ourselves to men in order to get things done - I’m fucking sick of that shit, for CERTAIN.
It’s National Women in Engineering Day. I’m one of the ones that left.
I don’t know if I’ve brought this up or not, so I will anyhoo…
I was born a female biologically. I’m bisexual and don’t get why wanting to do traditionally “man” things is wrong. I have half-joked in the past about being a bisexual male in a female body. But upon further reflection, I realized it’s no joke. It explains a lot of my past behaviors and feelings and thoughts. Like, WHY THE FUCK COULDN’T I PITCH IN THE MLB?
My dad said it’s because women’s elbows weren’t constructed properly for that. Now, he was alive when “A League of Their Own” came out, but I don’t think we could afford it on VHS at the time in 1992. But I don’t ever remember him seeing it.
And that segues into this…
A woman ahead of her time:
I have considered this particular line of work on and off ever since I read “The Happy Hooker” as a teenager, but only seriously after my mom died. I really would prefer being a non-sexual escort, though, as I’m still having emotional issues re having sex or even being sexual (THANKS PERVERT BOB, THOUGHT I WAS GETTING OVER IT TILL YOU CAME ALONG!).
But it seems too much like a gig-economy type job. Where can I get the real lowdown, I wonder, both the pros and the cons? (and from the 1970s backward, that would’ve been a great pun - the pros and cons of sex work; now…not so much)