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But wouldn't it be sad if nobody cared about fashion despite all of the effort and art and creativity people put into it? Someone needs to care.
(More seriously do not worry about people who Have Opinions if it stresses you out at all. It's literally none of our business and not important.)
Anyway. If you want my fashion advice I do have some:
Get your clothes tailored or learn to sew, or get a friend who can help you. Every day I see people in clothing that isn't correctly fitted and it makes me so sad. (Fit doesn't mean tight or loose it means it's *intentional* not just putting up with the size you stumbled into)
That's the only thing I really get heated about.
You are short and your blazer sleeves are too long.
But the thing I didn't understand was that that "MAGA woman" look that is a little baffling is aspirational. And part of the aspiration is to have people wonder "did she get work done?"
Do you see it now? No one will ever wonder if I've had "work done" I can't afford "work" ... but, the "fakeness" is part of the fantasy and appeal.
I also wonder if being confusing to liberals is part of the appeal. Because, it's the "opposite of a feminist" in their framework.
Few things are more confusing and potentially off-putting than something that's aspirational (class based) in a section of culture or society that you don't have much contact with at all or don't understand.
There has been a lot of muttering and shade about the "look" of the MAGA woman. I've tried to stay away from this conversation. I don't like to criticize anyone's looks. But especially women. Don't women have too many critics?
Too much make-up? Too fake? Who cares really?
Yeah this isn't a sad story of a kid who no one was feeding. It's the story of a stubborn kid whose parents thought "well... maybe if she just struggles a bit she'll figure it out."
My mom gave me $10 glorious late 1980s dollars each week to buy lunch which was $2 per day at the school. I was convinced I could find a better way to spend the money and create lunches.
They are so sweet but so strange sometimes.
Because of lockdown we recently had a class of seniors who never had a single snow day in their four years. They were very sad about this and made a whole petition for a "senior snow day" which was just like "extra senior cut day" and we were maybe going to reject it but then there was a big storm and they got their moment.
Thank god really.
Really? No no no. We still have them.
We also had the scroll. Very happy memories of watching it as snow caught on the window panes and blocked the back door. That was Ohio. Lake effect snow.
Maybe we'll have a NYC snow day yet. They are so terribly rare.
My husband works for the MTA so he HATES snow storms (It makes so much work for the subways) and is annoyed by the way I get excited about them.
Most schools I've encountered will have a strict nut and/or peanut ban if there are YOUNG kids with those allergies. And it's sensible.
There is no reason to have a ban if that isn't the case. The other case may be high sensitivity students ... then the ban may last longer.
Hilariously I'm deadly allergic to sunflowers and sunbutter. Eyes itch if I'm near it... but not peanuts.
I found some descriptions of Japanese packed lunches that said you needed a bed of rice then to add "pickes" but the images showed red things (I now understand that things can be pickled other than cucumbers)
I reasoned that ketchup was a bit like relish so could work as a "red pickle"
... it did not work.
@RedRobyn @MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
I remember doing "margarine and marmite" well... just marmite. But it was another attempt at "exotic food" no one in Ohio knows about marmite but my grandmother had some for some reason and let me take the jar.
I'd read about characters in some book eating "marmite on toast" so I brought that for lunch one day.
It was VERY sticky and got stuck in the little plastic sandwich bag. "This is what they eat in LONDON"
@MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly
Macintosh apple?
@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
I'm learning so many things, and remembering others.
Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they serve these at country clubs, you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."
*chew chew chew*
Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
This is why I have soft spot for strange somewhat hard headed kids. TBH.
@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"
I mean, it's good I guess.
@nazokiyoubinbou @MCDuncanLab @llewelly
effort isn't always a good thing.
At least it amused my friends to watch me unpack the box (which I pretended someone else made for me) and explain how it was going to work.
