topic was Therese not wanting the baby. (For those of you that don't
follow the strip, Therese is Liz's high school sweetheart's ex-wife,
who left the house and the baby with her ex.)
I admit I'm a bit on the sensitive side over this issue, but for that
very reason: I'm 25, about to graduate a very good law school, have
an excellent job lined up--but I had a relative tell me last summer
that I (direct quote) "ought to start thinking about dating and
marriage soon or people will think you're a career woman!"
I'm the first person in my family to get a law degree, and it was VERY
hard. I also don't intend to have children (which is another reason
why I emphathize with Therese) and haven't had much time for dating,
let alone marriage.
Now that I'm about to graduate, what do you think the family's talkin'
about? How proud they are? How exciting this is? Or "when is
Jocelyn going to settle down and raise a family" or "how is she going
to find time to have children working at a law firm?"
(Well, to be fair, it's split down the middle: half are proud, the
other half are fretting about the apparent demise of my womanhood.)
So yeah, I tend to growl when I see the "proper womanhood" stereotype
being advanced in popular culture.
Jocelyn
whatever other faults my parents may have, I can't IMAGINE them saying
something like that.
--- In [email protected], Diane Lochner
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> I don't think of this so much as a fan club, as I think it's a group
of people who appreciate humor, irony, satire, wordplay, and poop. I
like Gene's writing and chats most of the time; but I'm here for the
humor value and potential of all of you, and less so because of Gene.
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> And I'll end with a wedding story (I was not there, and heard this
from a co-worker). This woman was at a wedding reception during which
the bride and groom offered a prayer. So far, so good. Prayers at
weddings aren't unheard of. Except in this prayer, the bride and
groom beseeched God to help all of their single guests find a mate,
since that was the only true path to love and happiness. As in, "Dear
Lord, please help all of our single friends get dates so they can be
happy like us and won't have to be alone."
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> Suddenly all of my weird wedding experiences sounded normal. I
think I would have walked out that point. And maybe taken my gift
back on the way out the door.
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celebrity? How do you think he feels
> about being a celebrity, or do you think he realized it a long time
> ago and doesn't care? I think he refuses to accept/believe he is a
> celebrity. I think he thinks he's just doing his job, and he didn't
> get into this line of work to be famous. Sometimes I think if he knew
> he was going to be famous he would have done something else. Does
> having a fan club make you a celebrity by definition?
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