Funny how we say things like that.

Post #378,560 by CRConrad 7/27/13 1:36:27 PM Reply	Funny how we say things like that. So apparently the moral point stories like, say, _Cinderella_[] make is still true. That is, I mean, if we all really* thought that it's just as much a tragedy when it happens to an ugly little kid -- and who here will claim that it isn't? (Perhaps even more, come to think of it) -- then we wouldn't say stuff like that. (No, Mike, not an attack on you personally, just a reflection on something I'm pretty sure we all do. I do it too; that doesn't make it less wrong.) []: Or whatever, I may be getting my fairy tales mixed up. But not, anyway, _The Ugly Duckling_; I think Andersen must have been an unthinking goodlookist bigot. -- Christian R. Conrad* Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #378,578 by mmoffitt 7/28/13 11:35:34 AM Reply	On beauty. I heard Billy Connolly say that since he'd gotten older, his ideas of beauty had changed. Something about how at his age, he'd put behind him the usual ideas of beauty and found beauty in everyone. I'm younger than Connolly, but I understand what he meant. The Americanized idea of beautiful people is not one I share anymore and I often find great beauty in people that share nothing with that Americanized notion of beauty. But I always find beauty in small children. There are no small children who lack beauty. They only begin to lose their beauty when they gain their ability to speak. ;0)
Post #378,579 by drook 7/28/13 12:51:37 PM Reply	Re: speaking We spend the first three years teaching them to stand up, walk around and speak clearly; and the next fifteen years telling them to sit down, be still and shut up. -- Drew
Post #378,580 by hnick 7/28/13 4:14:44 PM Reply	Excellent point. Well done.
Post #378,586 by Ashton 7/28/13 5:56:20 PM 7/28/13 6:08:10 PM Reply	Now That's ... cutting to the chase! A keeper. Ed: Could spin a whole bio around that theme, my early-on unwillingness to comply --and several Memorable adults who, bit-by-bite civilised me somewhat: thus preventing my likely ending up on a BART platform [SF/Oakland area Metro] face-down on the deck: with a Rent-A-Cop standing over me / drawing his Glock-penis (instead of the Tazer He Thought.. he had picked!) / and blowing me away. There.. but for the Gracelessness of Cthulhu.. Edited by Ashton July 28, 2013, 06:08:10 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #378,611 by mmoffitt 7/29/13 1:26:08 PM Reply	Cat Stevens fan, are you? How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again. It's always been the same, same old story. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go. http://www.lyricsfre...son_20028183.html

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