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sartorias

Bits'n'Pieces

May 11, 2006 19:07

Cut for those with no time for drivel
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rl, kids, quotes

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minnow1212 May 12 2006, 03:09:22 UTC

> I ordered a bottle of germ."<

Hee! That is awesome.

ann1962 May 12 2006, 03:14:40 UTC

My daughter watched this movie today. I attended as well. Mostly the movie talked about the rhythms of change, how each girl is different. Not as much snickering as I expected. The free giveaway Stayfree pads and deodorant afterward surprised me most.

sartorias May 12 2006, 03:18:17 UTC

I really believe the more low key and matter of fact one is, the less embarrassment and uncomfortable snickering there is. It's the euphemisms buried in false sentiment that was so hideous in 1960, when I saw the fifties version (all fly-specked, with girls in forties' outfits). At least, my own daughter just shrugged over the eighties version she saw--but then she'd been encouraged to ask me questions, so nothing was news.

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Re: Welsh goats sartorias May 12 2006, 03:34:50 UTC

Ah, thank you. That makes sense.

mswyrr May 12 2006, 04:35:09 UTC

one of the treatments the anxious parents were told to do for her was to have all her teeth yanked out, and she didn't make it a year past that.

Suddenly my complaints about modern medicine shrivel up and blow away.

God, that's horrible.

jonquil May 12 2006, 04:46:48 UTC

Poor little Ellinor indeed. Argh.

oursin May 12 2006, 09:49:26 UTC

I didn't realise that this was being done as a supposedly therapeutic measure so early: I knew it was popular by the early C20th because of the rise of bacteriology leading to the theory of 'focal sepsis' and your bad teeth being toxic to the whole body, let's take the lot out and fit you with some nice dentures. I wonder what the c. 1800 rationale was.

sartorias May 12 2006, 17:56:50 UTC

Something of the same theory, from the governess's brief report. The child had toothache on top of her other problems, someone decided that the toothache was the cause of the other problems, so her parents took her to have them all yanked. A month later she still hadn't recovered from that--she probably had massive infections on top of all her other problems.

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copperwise May 12 2006, 05:05:12 UTC

Ah yes. The Film. The boys went to the gym for theirs, we went to the library for ours. Then they showed us the boy film, and showed them ours. The entire production felt like it must feel to be initiated into the final level of some secret cult, and like we should be all secretive about it with the opposite sex.

And I already knew all of it anyway, and was bored out of my mind and found it hideously patronizing.

Gaaa.