Spectacles
ACI got glasses today. She is 22 months old. I got mine, I think, when I was three. Will it be different for her?I often wonder who I would have been if I hadn't been the Kid with Glasses. Glasses helped with two things: I learned how to fight and I learned how to spell. I became pugnacious and bellicose.
I think her spectacles look great on her. She's still getting used to them. I hope she grows up not caring how they look (unless she wants to tint the lenses purple or something, which I'd be all for, but at that point my approval might be a hindrance).
My basis of comparison for the cruelty of children is now two decades old. Perhaps children are no longer ignorant, fearful, and cruel. Maybe I have nothing to worry about. Just in case, though, I will offer to kill thr first person who calls her "four eyes" and she can fight her own battles from that point, seeing how easy it is.
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by Marty Barrett at Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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I think she looks adorable.
The difference is that two decades ago there was no such term as "geek sexy." So with any luck, your daughter will be as clever as her dad and able to kick some jr high ass. Or get contacts in 3rd grade...
I hope for now she thinks that dad is still the bestest and she's just as cool as him.
Today, one of the more fucked-up moms at "Tot Time" which she attends with TAARG every Tuesday said, "Well, at least she won't need birth control in high school."
Is there any doubt where this sort of thing starts?
TAARG was not in receipt of the "geek sexy" post yet so she just let the remark pass, and instead related it to one of the beautiful, glasses-wearing moms there, who just shook her head.
Or...just maybe....its not too late to go back and kill that vile woman and establish ACI's "rep" in time for pre-school. I mean, if you did this for her, then mothers would think twice about what they say about her in the future (and maybe the kids too). That's just my thought on the matter.
There once was a spectacled cutie
Cuter even that Facts of Life's 'Tootie'
She smiled all day
In her curious way
As to her pants she delivered a pootie
I am so offended by that stupid mom's comment I am flabbergasted- it makes me so furious- it is in fact the very root of kids' poor self-esteem and self loathing. No matter how many times TAARG might say ACI is beautiful and smart- one asshole remark like that will stick with her until she's oh... 28 and then goes to her 10 year reunion hotter than everyone else- and not exhausted from all their kids like the girls who actually NEEDED birth control in high school. Revenge. But in the end- ACI will triumph!
Did you leave town because TAARG killed said woman? If not, it can be arranged for me to kill the woman while you are gone. Really.
I'm not kidding.
"At least she won't need birth control in high school."
Yeah, because I'm not raising her to be a whore and Baby Momma?
Oh Lord, people might think she's smart and a *GASP*.....BOOK READEEERRRRRRR!!!!!
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