Ooo, an Interesting Meme, lifted from Numbat

[callistra]

Confounding Societal Assumptions

1) I see my grey hair as a badge of honour.

2) I like to get my periods and have missed them during my pregnancy.

3) Relationships are on OUR terms. Monogamy is only one option.

4) I ask Why a lot more than I should. But probably not as often as I need to!

5) I love my 100 plus kilogram body, and wouldn't change it for the world. It never even occurs to me I should feel any other way. :-)

So which societal norms do you flout?

Comments

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

guess it depends what you mean by societal normals, and who your society is..

according to everday society, the flout I'm thinking of is normal

according to university students/feminists, it is a big evil nono
(I want to get married and have kids and be a stay at home Mum)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I always did too.
*grin*

And I have made things so that I am!!

Yay life!!
*grin*

And feminists who think that staying home and raising children is a nono should get a kick up the arse, and sent to read ginmar until their eyes bleed. It's all about choice! I actively and consciously choose to stay home and raise children.

All the feminists I know are actually what I think of as "ground floor" feminists these days. Women who deal with feminism every day, in the every day world, rather than academics and students who might not realise what does happen outside the uni structure. And on feminist_yay and feminist_rage, no one would DARE suggest to you that what you want is a big no no!!

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

i think its perfectly fine for people to not have kids, though i see what you mean - i just get the opposite (eg why do you want to be a slave to a man and children?)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny how people just say things, and never actually think about what they say?

And funnier about how they don't really listen to our answers anyway and just wander off looking puzzled...
*grin*

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

is that a jibe at me or just a general observation?

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Why would it be a jibe at you? What have you done? Would you like it to be?

???

*confused*

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

i thought you were saying that _i_ was one of those people that dont think about what they say and dont listen to peoples replies anyway...

which, some of the time i am, but obviously not here :P

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Besides, I usually have to know the person before I can make rude comments about them.
:-)

And I'm not a jibe type, I'm more of type to tackle any problems head on. Once I've decided there is a problem and it's not all in my head.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

perhaps jibe was the wrong word, more 'tease' i think.

ohyes, sorry, i forgot to introduce myself...

I'm Kate, we have friends in common, and your lj is interesting to read so I added you.

I'm at uwa doing honours in english, and am a unisfan.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

That's cool, I checked you out when I saw you'd friended me.
*grin*

So, do you reckon maelkann is hot or what???

*evil grin*

And shouldn't you be terraconning right now? I joined unisfa last year for Terracon. I think I wrote a thousand or two words on the experience...

Ooo, and people think I'm interesting??? Cooo!
:-)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

maelkann's cute, but i wouldnt say hot :P

i dont like terracon. been twice and had a crappy time both times.