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Last night it was "I am Superwoman. Why aren't you?"
Last night I came thisclose to stating exactly what I was dealing when my kids were small. Which involved doctors and serious voices. Do NOT give me "You can cook and fold laundry if you're perfect like me".
Just don't. I'll go all Irish and someone will have to come in and call a haz-mat team.
Ugh - that's so maddening! Like laundry and cooking are soooooo important in the grand scheme of things. Good for you for refraining for responding - whoever it was probably wouldn't have "gotten" it anyway. ETA: That thread just will not die, will it? It seems to be offensive from pretty much every side of the spectrum in turn.
It's a trite expression, but there's so much truth in it that I like it a lot, which is "You never know what someone else is dealing with."
And haha re: the bolded - I always say "Watch out or I'll go all Irish on yo azz" DH? Well, he just tells people who say I seem so sweet "Yeah, but be careful, she'll cut you."
Last night it was "I am Superwoman. Why aren't you?"
At some point you kind of wonder if it doesn't boil down to the same kind of thing as the guys who "for some reason" need a very large truck, with very large tires and very large noise". Makes you wonder why they need to prove all of that
(Note: In college you could take philosophy or psych for the general ed requirement. I took philosophy so what do I actually know, lol. Where's Ewag?)
Haha! I don't know too much about "compensation" issues (a little too Freudian for me), but I do recall a girlfriend writing a research paper in Western Civ about guys' obsessions with motor vehicles as an extension of their obsession with, um, themselves?
But I think Dew is right on about the insecurity thing - confident people don't usually feel the need to beat you over the head with their superiority!
My livingroom is a blank slate, except it has a brick wall. I'm buying everything new--furniture, area rug, curtains, etc. I have to figure out a color scheme to go with this brick wall. It's a 100 year old wall with lots of rich colors---various shades of burnt orange, some reds, a few grey purples here and there. The mortor is more like grey taupe, not white.
These days I'm drawn to bright multi colored bohemian fabrics---like india fabric, maybe morraco, turkish, etc. I also want to incorporate artwork into my home. When I look at paintings, I always love the ones with the bright vivid colors.
I've never dared to decorate this way. I want to give it a shot! I know this isn't something most people would want for their homes. I just wish there was a way for me to have an explosion of colors.
But it just seems that vivid colors will clash with this brick. Maybe I should just stick with rick burnt oranges and golds. I've always been perplexed by this brick wall but it's too pretty to cover up. I just need to figure out how to decorate with it.
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Good for you for refraining for responding - whoever it was probably wouldn't have "gotten" it anyway. ETA: That thread just will not die, will it? It seems to be offensive from pretty much every side of the spectrum in turn.
