sometimes, it's just not worth it....
today was a disturbing day. very disturbing. it snowed. freaking snowed. ok, so it was for like 2 minutes max and definitely didn't stick, but it's the start of the pissed-off butters time of year. sux, because my b-day is monday, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, and i'm going to be pissed for most of it.....
ohio state v. Michigan this weekend. GO BLUE!!!!!
so i just got off the phone with a woman who lost her umbrella.... well, she didn't lose it, her "girlfriend" lost it. which brings me to this question. did she mean "girlfriend" as in significant other? did she mean "girlfriend" as in what many - if not most - women refer to their female friends? the answer doesn't really matter to me so much as this: why can women refer to female friends as "girlfriends" while men can't refer to male friends as "boyfriends" without it having an entirely different connotation? sure there could be the "guy-friends" reference, but isn't that also what women call male friends whom they have no romantic interest in? why do we have to share our adjective with women while we can't take their's and re-genderize it?
just asking.....
ohio state v. Michigan this weekend. GO BLUE!!!!!
so i just got off the phone with a woman who lost her umbrella.... well, she didn't lose it, her "girlfriend" lost it. which brings me to this question. did she mean "girlfriend" as in significant other? did she mean "girlfriend" as in what many - if not most - women refer to their female friends? the answer doesn't really matter to me so much as this: why can women refer to female friends as "girlfriends" while men can't refer to male friends as "boyfriends" without it having an entirely different connotation? sure there could be the "guy-friends" reference, but isn't that also what women call male friends whom they have no romantic interest in? why do we have to share our adjective with women while we can't take their's and re-genderize it?
just asking.....