Fun with Windows 10

[J. Landman Gay]

Oh dear, I wasn't trying to prove anything and I didn't really have you 
in mind...it's a story I tell often because my mother was so convinced 
that the old stereotypes were still valid and that I was a lost cause, 
which I never believed. :) And I think it's amusing when I look back and 
see how desperate she was to make a proper lady out of me at the same 
time it was going out of vogue. The times were changing, but she didn't 
get it.

I probably didn't put enough smileys in there, it didn't come off the 
same way it does in my head, which is fond amusement.

On 8/14/18 4:25 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> Dear Jacque,
> 
> I was appealing to the male contributors to this Use-List.
> 
> As a man who won prizes for sewing, cooking, flower-arranging, woodwork
> and was a Sergeant in the school Cadet Force I am the last person to 
> have any
> truck with daft social stereotypes.
> 
> I am aware as the next person who has their head reasonably well screwed 
> on that
> there are male, female and in-between "Paris Hiltons".
> 
> You do not need to prove to me how "butch" you were; any more than my 
> football teacher had to
> start calling me  a "pansy" when he found me making daisy chains round 
> the back of the goal
> while other boys managed to score 3 goals because I wasn't there.
> 
> Love, Richmond.
> 
> On 15/8/2018 12:04 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> On 8/14/18 11:26 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
>>> That's why I'm saving up for a Petticoat 5
>>
>> A brief diversion:
>>
>> I have always hated pink since I can remember. I climbed trees and 
>> read books up there as soon as I was able.
>>
>> When I was some high 1-digit age, I asked for a chemistry set for my 
>> birthday. My mom was shocked, didn't I want a nice doll? No, I wanted 
>> a chemistry set. I got one, but was disappointed that the most 
>> advanced thing it would do was write with "invisible ink" made from 
>> lemon juice. I wanted to blow up the bathroom.
>>
>> When I was approaching puberty I asked for a Kenner Girder and Panel 
>> set. This was a bunch of preformed, snap-together plastic pieces that 
>> allowed you to construct buildings and skyscrapters. My mom was 
>> appalled. Wouldn't a nice play kitchen be better? No, it wouldn't.
>>
>> When I went to college my mom nagged me constantly to wear more 
>> makeup, paint my eyes like a boll weevil, and "do something with your 
>> hair," preferably helmet hair. She kept telling me that was the only 
>> way to catch a man. I told her I didn't want to catch one, I wanted to 
>> find one who liked me for how I was. She was positive I would never 
>> marry. But I did, and we still are, and my sister who wore more makeup 
>> masks and slept in beer-can rollers is on her third husband.
>>
>> I would never buy a girlie computer. Besides, I've never in my life 
>> had long fingernails.
>>
> 
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