Age is just a number! Well, that is what people say. I believe that age is just a number, as long as you are the male in the situation. For a female, you are never in the right. Never. Ever.
I have always dated older guys. I dated guys in college or past that my whole life. My family was pretty used to it, for the most part, but I did catch a lot of flack from friends...and my sister. One guy I briefly dated shared the same name as my dad, Gary. He was 37, I was 18. I found it strange to call him by his first name and instead used his middle name. I told my sister about him and this is how the conversation went:
Me- "Well, he's 37, and his name's Gary."
My sister-"WHAT????"
Me- "Well, I don't call him Gary, that'd be weird"
My sister- "What do you call him, DAD?"
After Gary, I met my husband. He is 19.5 years older than I am. When we met at a club, I was 18 years old. He was 38. All of my friends wondered what I wanted with an older guy. Everyone assumed I was after his money. Of which he had none. Zero. He had just been divorced and laid off. I was obviously not a gold digger, but that is not how it was viewed. Women eyed me suspiciously and made comments about me frequently. Some people wondered if he was my dad. Some even asked me if he was. Overall, even after ten years, people assume I have some negative motivation.
Meanwhile, Joel would be constantly praised. "You are my hero" (fake bowing to him) "So, what's it like being with a girl so much younger? It's like swimming in cotton candy, isn't it?" Yes...that was actually asked of him.
A friend of mine was recently asked out by a guy in his 20's...and she is 39. Immediately, the cougar comments started by her friends and coworkers. For her to be looking at someone younger, she is viewed as a predator..some crazed feline with issues. People tried to talk her out of it. The guy, on the other hand, is probably getting high fives from friends for being with a mature woman.
So, if a female dates someone older, she is a gold digger and the man is praised.
If a female dates someone younger, she is a cougar, and the guy is praised.
Must be nice being a guy.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Can you rock a minivan?
I am 28. The awkward in-between age where you sit precariously on the fence between youth and...well...aging. My Town and Country van seems to mock my youthful mentality and tries to give me that final push over the fence.
So, with a nice van with leather seats, navigation, swivel seats, and 2 dvd players, you know I have satellite radio. Sirius radio is amazing and I love channels 2 and 3 (current hits), 9 (90's songs), 44 (rap), and the comedy stations. I have the ability to hear so many amazing songs, many which make me dance a bit in my seat....ok, I dance a lot. I do watch what is played when the kids are in there with me (it starts getting weird when your 4 year old sings "I'm only getting started, I won't black out") but what about when I'm alone? Do I look like the woman in the clip below?
http://youtu.be/xGr21_8vA8A Watch :32-:37
This to me is a classic example of when rocking the minivan is so so wrong.
Do you listen to what you want and keep the windows rolled up tight? For now, I choose to avoid looking at people and do what I want. I am a mom, but I'm still me. However, I promise that when I exit the van, "Juicy" isn't plastered across my rear end. That to me is going too far.
So, with a nice van with leather seats, navigation, swivel seats, and 2 dvd players, you know I have satellite radio. Sirius radio is amazing and I love channels 2 and 3 (current hits), 9 (90's songs), 44 (rap), and the comedy stations. I have the ability to hear so many amazing songs, many which make me dance a bit in my seat....ok, I dance a lot. I do watch what is played when the kids are in there with me (it starts getting weird when your 4 year old sings "I'm only getting started, I won't black out") but what about when I'm alone? Do I look like the woman in the clip below?
http://youtu.be/xGr21_8vA8A Watch :32-:37
This to me is a classic example of when rocking the minivan is so so wrong.
Do you listen to what you want and keep the windows rolled up tight? For now, I choose to avoid looking at people and do what I want. I am a mom, but I'm still me. However, I promise that when I exit the van, "Juicy" isn't plastered across my rear end. That to me is going too far.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
The inane mirror pic
Unless you are living the internet-free Quaker lifestyle and you are busy with your neighborhood barn raising, you are probably on Facebook. If so, you have seen the exorbitant amount of mirror pics out there. Mirror pics? You are blogging on mirror pics? Well, yes...I am.
Mirror pics are usually taken by people in their teens or twenties, but that is not a hard and fast rule. An occasional adult posts one out there, usually with a sexy pout in a too-tight outfit stolen from their daughter's closet. Here is what ensues: A person takes their cell phone into their dirty bathroom, where usually a toilet or sink is quite obvious in the photo, and snaps a picture of themselves in the mirror. Sometimes they bring a friend into said bathroom and they take the photo together.
Call me old fashioned, but what happened to asking someone to take a picture for you? It really isn't that much of an imposition, and then we won't see the toothpaste smears on your sink or the dirty magazines in the corner of your room. Or, perhaps, use a tripod if you don't have any friends who exist off of the internet. Since when did the bathroom become an acceptable place to take a picture? When I was a young girl, I had a camera with film. I am only 28, but I remember cherishing each shot- never knowing which ones would turn out- and taking pictures of importance. As the digital age came upon us, we started deleting photos, taking thousands of pictures and storing them with ease. If we have such a great ability today to Photoshop our pictures and our technological advances astound previous generations, why are the young people today resorting to taking mirror pictures in their bathrooms?
Mirror pics are usually taken by people in their teens or twenties, but that is not a hard and fast rule. An occasional adult posts one out there, usually with a sexy pout in a too-tight outfit stolen from their daughter's closet. Here is what ensues: A person takes their cell phone into their dirty bathroom, where usually a toilet or sink is quite obvious in the photo, and snaps a picture of themselves in the mirror. Sometimes they bring a friend into said bathroom and they take the photo together.
Call me old fashioned, but what happened to asking someone to take a picture for you? It really isn't that much of an imposition, and then we won't see the toothpaste smears on your sink or the dirty magazines in the corner of your room. Or, perhaps, use a tripod if you don't have any friends who exist off of the internet. Since when did the bathroom become an acceptable place to take a picture? When I was a young girl, I had a camera with film. I am only 28, but I remember cherishing each shot- never knowing which ones would turn out- and taking pictures of importance. As the digital age came upon us, we started deleting photos, taking thousands of pictures and storing them with ease. If we have such a great ability today to Photoshop our pictures and our technological advances astound previous generations, why are the young people today resorting to taking mirror pictures in their bathrooms?
Friday, October 7, 2011
Halloween brings out the tramp in us all
As October has come upon us, so has the mass amounts of Halloween paraphernalia. Candy galore stocks the aisles, and mocks us next to costumes that barely cover our backsides. Oh yes, indulge in that bag of candy pumpkins and have a few caramel apples...but, be prepared to go as Mrs. Potato Head this Halloween.
It always amuses me to see people shop for costumes. Every year, little girls flock to the princess costumes, while boys want to be anything that allows them to carry multiple weapons (in order to impale all princesses with). The funniest thing is to see the costumes directed at tweens and adult women. As I perused the Spirit Halloween website, I saw they have made everything sexy.
http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/la-risky-raccoon-m-l-10-14/
Risky Raccoon! OK, so a heavy, lumbering, nocturnal animal who invades garbage cans is now a sex symbol? What is next? The promiscuous possom? Come ON! This is ridiculous!
You have the option of going as something that completely covers your insecurities (Angry Birds, Big Bird, Cereal Box, etc), or letting it ALLL hang out for all friends and neighbors to see.
And, of course, they sell it because people are buying it!!!! There is someone out there who sees that risky raccoon and cannot wait to show it off at their Halloween party. There is something about Halloween that makes carpool driving mothers of three abandon their usual ways and morph into Wonder Woman or Lady Gaga. The more leg, bust, and butt you show, the better.
Will I partake in this nonsense? Will I stoop into buying an outfit that is deemed "sexy"? You bet, but nocturnal animals are definitely not on my list of possibilities.
It always amuses me to see people shop for costumes. Every year, little girls flock to the princess costumes, while boys want to be anything that allows them to carry multiple weapons (in order to impale all princesses with). The funniest thing is to see the costumes directed at tweens and adult women. As I perused the Spirit Halloween website, I saw they have made everything sexy.- Sexy Ghostbusters
- Sexy Bumblebee
- Sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
- Sexy Nun
http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/la-risky-raccoon-m-l-10-14/
Risky Raccoon! OK, so a heavy, lumbering, nocturnal animal who invades garbage cans is now a sex symbol? What is next? The promiscuous possom? Come ON! This is ridiculous!
You have the option of going as something that completely covers your insecurities (Angry Birds, Big Bird, Cereal Box, etc), or letting it ALLL hang out for all friends and neighbors to see.
And, of course, they sell it because people are buying it!!!! There is someone out there who sees that risky raccoon and cannot wait to show it off at their Halloween party. There is something about Halloween that makes carpool driving mothers of three abandon their usual ways and morph into Wonder Woman or Lady Gaga. The more leg, bust, and butt you show, the better.
Will I partake in this nonsense? Will I stoop into buying an outfit that is deemed "sexy"? You bet, but nocturnal animals are definitely not on my list of possibilities.
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