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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 01:36 pm
[personal profile] maharetr and [personal profile] transcendancing and I were discussing the way Aussie culture has some revolting stuff floating around this particular concept. Today a lady called me a ‘good girl’ and I thought about the number of times I’ve been called that (not many) and what makes me feel like one.

Good Girl!
  • Helping older ladies with knee problems pick up their lunch after it fell on the floor
  • Being kind to my friends
  • Listening to people when they need to talk
  • Doing my (tedious) laundry and cleaning my desk
  • Exercising when I want to sloth
  • Eating food of the colour green
Not a Good Girl :(
  • Lying to self or other people
  • Punishing other people for not being like me
  • Not controlling myself when I’m irritable
  • That thing that happened with the eggs… and that thing with the mirror
  • Being thoughtless and seeing that reflected in other people suffering as a result
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 08:09 am (UTC)
I found this interesting, thank you!

Many years ago (1995? 1996?) I noticed that my GP had special post-vaccination bandaids for kids -

there were "good girl" bandaids and "brave boy" bandaids.

I remember feeling indignant and thinking
"why not brave girl, or good boy?"