Mostly she cheated on him for how every time he entered her, he insisted on referring to it as a "Slam Dunc".When I got my first apartment all of my own, I knew I wanted something on the walls that nobody else had and which was all my own. Not having much faith in my drawing or painting skills, I decided to make use of a large store of magazine clippings I'd been hoarding for several years to no specific purpose. Using a standard Grade Six Presentation On Ancient Rome sized piece of bristol board, I did up a big collage and hung it up in a cheap frame that my parents had had laying around. To my surprise, a lot of people other than myself found it very enjoyable to look at.
A year later, upon moving into the bachelor box by the Ottawa canal which would hold me until I left for England, I decided to do up another. The first was just pure stream of consciousness while the latter was loosely gender-themed, with lads dominating one half and ladies the other. Of the same size as the first, I laminated it and then used the collage as a fun cover for my tiny table.
Knowing I'll be heading down to Toronto next month and, ideally, getting my own place by February...I decided it might be time to do some more - having given the two previous collages to my pal Joe when I left for England. This time around I am taking stiff pieces of standard printer paper sized card and doing up a series of smaller collages which I will then get laminated and use for place mats in whatever my new home turns out to be.
The lion's share of my clippings are coming from a tall stack of 1970's teen girl romance comics which contain, by and large, solid gold. The shiniest of the nuggets I have thus far mined would have to be the following "Alphabet of Differences Between Boys and Girls". Yeah, some of it is the predictable patronizing female programming...but honestly, I think that the guys take a much harsher lesson from this cursed alphabet!
Unfortunately the teen-aged girl who owned these several yonks ago must have had a go with her own pair of scissors, so we miss a couple of letters and two descriptions. Still, there's plenty to work with!
I suppose you could say that I have my work cut out for me? "
You could, but you probably shouldn't.
"Boys possess some of the same qualities, but to a much lesser degree"
"When a girl has a quarrel, all she has to do is shed a few tears, and everything becomes all right"
I...I have to say that the "S...is for Sex" text confused the hell out of me until I realized it was referring to "Sex" as in "Gender" and not "MAKIN' BACON".
For all the old fashioned crap in the other letters, at least X is being hell of progressive by putting forward the idea that women want to see porno films...?Now I'm off to go make Christmas martinis - I hope you've all had as peaceful and satisfying a day as I have!
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Blaaaaa, clearly the target audience is girls, so it's trying to reinforce gender stereotypes. The reason boys get such a bad deal in this is because it's trying to convince girls that boys are mean and yucky because that's just "the way they are." Discouraging progressive behaviour, yay!
X is pretty awesome, though.
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