lest you forget
this baseball cap is helpfully labelled ‘Womens’ to educate novice shoppers that pink is the colour of girls. This hat is a womans hat, not suitable for boys. Can you imagine the forms of social torture that would be heeped upon a boy who with naiveté, bravery or other reason ignored the gender specifying advice? In the face of such tortures what boy would dare to wear the pink?
May 28th, 2007
I bought a pink shirt to wear to work just to spite our sons who typically poo-poo everything in pink.
I probably went too far last year when I wore a pink Robbie Williams T shirt and got followed by a bunch of 13 year-old schools chanting gay-gay-gay behind me for miles near where we lived. I actually knew two of them from the school run! OK ridicule is nothing to be scared of but it was distressing coming from the next generation (or the next). Maybe I was just not in the mood that day to see the funny side and to, eh, take that.
Lest we forget indeed!
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May 28th, 2007
“school girls” – I meant to say – am obviously still disturbed by the memory.
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