TM-Response: Overheard in Sunnydale

[summers_day]

Write about an overheard remark or secret that you were not supposed to have heard.

Comments

[i_warren]

>>I was angsting a little bit about not having a date to the prom, about turning down the one boy who wanted to take me to the prom<<

Yeah-huh. Say what you mean, Summers. A good enough date.

[summers_day]

Someone asked me, and I said 'no,' therefore I had no date.

[i_warren]

But you could have had a date. Easy.

[summers_day]

I didn't say I couldn't have had a date.

[i_warren]

But you were "angsting" about "not having a date", therefore, you wanted a date.

But it would have killed you to go with Jonathan, apparently.

[summers_day]

I wasn't talking about Jonathan.

I was talking about having enough respect for my best friend not to pretend like I had feelings for him that I didn't have.

[i_warren]

Well isn't that sweet. I'm so glad you were bff with the only genetic male in all of Sunnydale. What was that like?

[summers_day]

The only genetic male WHO ASKED ME, yes.

[i_warren]

Because it's always our job. It's always our fault.

[summers_day]

I wasn't talking about anybody's fault. Though after my last date ended up in a funeral home, I wasn't that eager to put myself out there again.

You notice how I haven't made any cracks about building myself a date? That's because I'm a good person.

Oh, while I've got you, can you explain how Helo and Sharon had a baby if he died in the miniseries? Was she already pregnant when the toaster-guys attacked?

[i_warren]

Yeah, well there's your problem right there. I can't stand when you all (and I do mean women) sit there whining, 'Oh, no one likes me, I don't have a boyfriend', and we (here I speak of men) are like, 'We're right here', and you say, 'Oh, sorry, I didn't mean you. Really, anyone but you.'

...

What?

[summers_day]

Because I should be happy that anybody wants to be my boyfriend, even if I don't care about him, and just shut up and get back in the kitchen. Thanks for clarifying where you're coming from.

*breathes heavily*

OK, I'm not going to cross that out but now that my eyes can focus again I'll call a do-over -- yes, I understand that I shared the responsiblity for not having a date. I was trying to clarify that by mentioning that I had turned down the perfectly wonderful boy who asked me. That doesn't mean I didn't feel sad. Although you might notice that the actual POINT of the original post I made was that I soon grew to realize how trivial those feelings were in the face of the prospect of immediate death. Funny how that works.

Connor was trying to explain something about Battlestar Galactica to me, but it just got more confusing. I thought you would know that stuff.

[i_warren]

>>I soon grew to realize how trivial those feelings were in the face of the prospect of immediate death<<

I don't agree.

You should still specify.

I don't watch that show because it blows.

[summers_day]

Specify WHAT? I'm lost.

I think it blows, too. But my gender-in-media studies professor suggested I should use Starbuck and Boomer as, what was it, instructive comparisons in my paper on Sydney Bristow as Woman Warrior.

[i_warren]

You: women, should specify when you are whining that you have no date. It's really irritating. Hopes can only be dashed so many times.

That sounds incredibly retarded. Xena was a woman warrior.

[summers_day]

That sounds incredibly retarded.

You must have been talking to my professor.

Just out of curiosity, how much do you know about structural gender theory?

And how much do you charge to write term papers.