…or maybe pink
“The boys” have gone to Izu for the long weekend. I feel abandoned and annoyed.
While I understand and support their need and desire to be independent from me and their various partners, I don’t like being excluded because I lack a penis. Couldn’t they come up with a better excuse to leave me behind - a real reason - or do something I’m uninterested in so I don’t want to go?
“It’s a different dynamic when you’re not there,” Tod lamely explained, as if that was supposed to make me feel better.
“I can’t consider you one of the boys; you’re very much female to me,” Jonathan once tried to placate me. It wasn’t the compliment he intended.
Until this group of friends, I’ve always been “one of the boys” and I am most displeased to be relegated to femininity. It’s not my fault I’m a girl. It’s not my fault, I say. This gender division is unkind, unfair and completely out of step with how I think about myself.
(Plus, I have an abandonment issue and these weekends away sting a bit.)
Posted by kuri at October 07, 2006 10:28 AMDon’t worry honey. We are going to have our Girl’s Night away on Monday.
And I bet they won’t get to sit in a jungle-themed onsen!
Posted by: MJ on October 7, 2006 06:06 PMDo you not have girls nights out? ;)
Posted by: Jeni on October 7, 2006 09:35 PMI hardly ever exclude the boys. They might not be interested in Sewing Sundays, but they are more than welcome to join in. If any of them felt like joining me & MJ on Monday, I’d be happy to have them - even though we wouldn’t sit together in the jungle onsen.
Posted by: Kristen on October 7, 2006 11:53 PMI like your art
Posted by: Kris on October 8, 2006 07:15 PMMEN!
Posted by: Doris on October 9, 2006 06:51 AMI know this doesn’t address the post so much, but I can’t help but look at those cute little sheep up there and wonder “Will Kristen be crafting these out of socks soon?”
*ducks*
Posted by: Jenn on October 9, 2006 09:53 PMwho is who in the illustration??? ;)
Posted by: T on October 10, 2006 02:44 PM