Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird As I read this post, my eldest offspring is lol'ling while discovering that the genre of Bridge Writing is an actual thing - not just instructional books, but also "bridge fiction".

Synchronicity!

@llewelly @futurebird So, all in the context, basically.

@futurebird I just checked Urban Dictionary. It appears to be gross. (At least I think so).

@futurebird @artemis That's why I am so grateful to have lived in a truly multicultural society, where cultural traditions are still largely observed in the different cultures.

Explicit cultural traditions are so much easier to examine, update, appreciate, follow or refute than hidden assumptions and expectations.

@artemis @futurebird
Encouragingly, I was told that having a higher education fetches a higher Lobola* in modern Zulu society. A young male Zulu colleague of mine explained it to me when I asked when he and his fiancée planned to marry. He had to save up for longer, because she got her degree!

*( This is the price paid by the groom to the bride's family to get permission to marry her, still expressed in head of cattle, but paid in equivalent worth, now.)

@artemis @futurebird
In my family (white, English, middle-class, British colonial descent in Africa), my generation was the first to finish university degrees. My dad and uncle both dropped out to work. My mom had to fight her parents to go to teacher-training college because it was 'a waste of time' to educate girls past school.

Women's education being less important is still a pretty dominant idea in a lot of South African society. It's just less explicit now.

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@futurebird @artemis That is a fantastic template!

@privacy_guru Yes! For a very small subscription. The free offering is more than sufficient for casual use. I have been using it first years. @weirdfish @futurebird