The wrongness of my mom.

[mrissa]

sensational was unaware that my birthday is in one week and one day. Clearly, I have not mentioned it enough: I will be 28! On my birthday! Which is in one week and one day!

And on that topic, my mom and I had a Discussion, prompting me to make a poll:

[Poll #772721]

This came up because of our house-painter's behavior (NO, my mom is not here -- I AM THE HOMEOWNER!), and also because of the kid in the drive-through when I was getting food for timprov (that is not even legal, sonny!!!), and also because of my mom's new neighbors (NO, I am not home for the summer, I am home all the time because home is where I live!). But looking older or younger is a value-neutral thing for me -- if you say that I look way older than 28, I will say, "Hah, so there, Mom and lydy, I TOLD YOU!" and not, "Oh woes I look like a shriveled hag of [lower age than the average age of my friendslist]! All of youth's pleasures are lost to me forever, wailie woe!" And if you say I look way younger than 28, that's okay, too, except that you will be wrong like my mom and lydy. But other than that it'll be fine. I won't be mad at you for being wrong. I'm wrong, too, sometimes. (I am being silly here, but I seriously do want to know.)

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

It's been a LONG LONG time since I saw that movie, and when I did, I was too young to get most of the point, so I hesitate to interpret. Someone here must be able to say better than I could. My impression was that it was simultaneously an older woman being somewhat predatorily interested in a young man, and a young man getting unbelievably lucky to fall into the lap of this experienced and sexual older woman, who gives him his initiation. Which may be somewhat disturbing and bewildering, but must nonetheless be positive, because it's SEX. What a thing of joy it must be to be socialized male in America.