It was a butt-kickin’ kind of week for me. After working fairly hard on the final two weeks of “vacation,” I knew there was a lot to do this first week of the new semester. The only thing I didn’t get completely done on my to-do list was to hand my PhD application materials to [...]
Am I a girl? … Why, thank you.
- Excuse me, I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation from way up there. I’m going to assume that you haven’t really thought this all through yet and will realize, upon doing so, how cruel you are being through your choice of words. You are quick to call your friend a “girl,” implying that this is a bad thing. That your friend is weak, spineless, overly emotional, or whatever macho-deficient quality you find off-putting. To fully understand how awful that sounds to the majority of people, try substituing some other derrogatory words, like “fag” or “nigger.”