No Boys Allowed
last night i was kicked out of the house.
see, there was a "women's group" meeting there and i am not a "women."
so i decided to "not be a jerk" and go to the "movies" with "friends."
i've never quite understood the whole women's group thing. i mean, i understand wanting to hang out with the boys, and i understand needing to have close friends who are male, but i can't really picture wanting to have a group of men with whom i do manly things and talk about manly stuff. or i can't picture wanting to do that regularly.
i prefer to do that with a mixed group of men and women and undecided.
i know there are men's groups out there and i've been invited and even encouraged to join 'em, but i just don't want to. i think i only want to share things of a personal nature with people i have individually selected or with people who read this blog...
uh. next topic.
which is what, exactly? i may have a little blog vacation coming up. just not feeling all bloggy lately.
a women's group sounds great. you get to be surrounded by beautiful women, in a group! where do i get one?
on the other hand, i agree. a men's group sounds icky.
yep! it's nice to come home to, especially when they're all hottt. wait. there are six of them. hotttttt+.
maybe we should start a women's group?
ha ha. chix kicked you outta yr house.
btw is it wimmin's or wymn's or just grrrl's?
Out of curiosity, do you have any impression of what it would be like to be in a men's group? Do you have the impression of group therapy? Or banging drums in the woods? Or something else?
I was pretty resistant and intimidated at the thought of joining a men's group for a long time. (Mostly, 'cause I felt way more comfortable opening up to women.) But since I have, I've found it real valuable.
I'm not interested in pressuring you to join one; I'm just curious if your experience of them is similar to mine.
i expect more group therapy w/ organized activities and acknowledgements. i hate acknowledgements. and organized activities for that matter.
and don't get me started on honoring the four directions.
i do however like beer and porn and men are okay.
and the occassional grunt-like-a-bear field trip would be fine.
i hear they have a nice men's group at the power exchange.
Oh my God that is so gay.
*sigh*
it is apparently, as steven has shown us, once again in vogue to say things like 'that is so gay.' my students, not having yet been born in the eighties the last time this expression was in use, all say it constantly and we have had many discussions about why it is not okay to say that kind of thing. i thought i was making progress in this world until steven's comment, although clearly in this case it is warranted since if anywhere in san francisco or in this world actually is gay it is the power exchange. so steven, you are not In Trouble. but if other people continue to use this expression you will have to stay in at recess with your head down on your desk like one of my students did today after saying 'You are so gay!' for the millionth time this week, in this case to another student in my class who has two mothers.
also:
where is the men's group for wymyn and grrls who like beer, porn, men, grunting like bears, shaking sticks, banging drums, and despite complaints from the author and with all due respect to him, honoring the four directions?
i feel underrepresented.