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[Richmond Mathewson]

Oh dear, my reply was part of a story I like to tell because my parents 
had lots of well-meaning friends who were convinced that those stereotypes
were eternal verities, and had lots of sadistic fun informing my parents 
that I'd grow up to be 'queer': which I did, but not in the way they meant!

The most amusing thing in my childhood was watching the faces of those 
'friends' after they had pointed out that my setting up tea parties with
my sister's dolls (while she was zooming my toy cars around the place) 
was a 100% guarantee of something unsuitable in my later years, my father
pointed out that he was always getting into trouble for dressing up in 
his sister's clothes.

My father is, needless to say as normal as all the males in our family . 
. . and, what is more, has always stated that a child's play is a 
child's play and
adults should never, under any circumstances, interfere in it or try to 
steer it is some sort of 'suitable' direction.

I am quite sure that well-meaning adults interfering in a child's play 
does one hell of a lot of damage: while, if children are left to their own
devices they will reach some sort of satisfactory adulthood with a good 
modicum of contentment.

Richmond.

On 15/8/2018 2:53 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> 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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