OMG! Not so much a 1980's kid, but a teenager-young adult!
I also paired my leg warmers with the Hi-top Reeboks!
I wore my shirts off the shoulder
I had a Cabbage Patch Kid named Derek (Just for the heck of it)
I still have a cassette tape somewhere with 99 red ballons... in german!
I wore fish nets with ankle lace socks and pumps to the disco! (I was 18 in 1981 )
I remember when Menudo came about (Ricky Martin joined them around 1986, I think)
I had big hair and carried a can of hairspray!
I went roller - skating every Friday night, ever since I was 7!
My outfit for 1983 New Years eve was a neon lime green skirt and shirt (off the shoulder of course!), with fluorescent orange leaf-shaped earrings and fluorescent orange beads!
I wore the jackets with gigantic shoulder pads and long skirts, buttoned up shirt with a brooch at the throat! or a leather necktie!
I have no difficulties with any words here. You speak plain English, so do I. If you say you have only respect for people wanting to advance in life, then say it plainly, stop offending and attacking women, just because you feel we are potential threats.
If you have the capability and skills for your job and are doing it well, then you shouldn't worry about anybody going after it. If you are relying only in your gender and not the required habilities to perform a job, then you should worry. If a woman is capable and more skilled at doing the same job than a man, then she should have the job. Jobs should not be obtained based on gender.
Now if I was in an open competition with someone that is after my job and position, I wouldn't open doors for them either. If it was another man after your job and position, will you be buying him beer? I don't think so.
If I have taken your statements the wrong way, then I apologize. But I don't think I did. You may think that you are an equal rights advocate, but in truth you are not.
I think this thread may spin the wrong way, and I think it is time to call a truce and talk about something else...
Please then, don't call yourself a gentleman. Equality in rights is one thing, abusive behavior is another. chivalry, belongs with men that still behave like men...
And no. I don't agree with you at all. I will never dream of placing my self at your same level. My hard earned wisdom and freedom, my age old knowledge that as a lady I should be treated with respect, will be compromised facing a different level, not necessarily equal or higher than mine.
So, I am very sorry for not sharing your views. I do believe in equality. And respect, and love and care and justice and morals. And this was taught to me by a very fair and just man: My father.
Women are conniving and oportunist, and don't deserve special treatment, even after bearing children...
I guess you would want to have maternity leave banned too, right?
Who's made it difficult for you to feed your children? when women I know have had trouble feeding theirs, they dealt with it. At least most of them. Not saying that all do. But they didn't blame it on the father who did not pay the child support. And if the father was at fault, they also dealt with that, taking legal action. If you have had the same problems on that regard, I suggest you do the same. Deal and take legal action. Is your right.
I would consider relocating, even internationally, if it feels right... I would relocate as a career move, and to give my children a better life, culturally, in education, to give them peace. If love is involved in the equation, well, it takes a bit more of planning and compromising... but it can be done, and I wouldn't hesitate to contemplate the relocating...
Don't guys always say that they are "gentlemen", that "they want to treat their women as queens, the way they should be treated", that "their mother raised a perfect gentleman"... These I have read in a zillion profiles...
So, the art of Chivalry is lost? And so are gentlemen? Men that are proud to be of service to their women?
I don't remember asking for special prices on "ladies night"... this events were created by men (club owners) to attract more ladies, who will in turn, attract more men, the big spenders... And btw, in ladies night there are no special prices. Ladies don't pay. and if a guy ask me out to dinner, I expect him to pay. If it's a school mate and he says, lets go grab a bite to it... I won't expect him to pay. Same way, if I invite a guy over to my house to have dinner, he's not expecting to come to my house carrying grocery bags, is he? And I wouldn't expect payment for his half of the meal...
I guess is not all or nothing... I guess we have to meet in the middle and compromise, as always.
mmmhhh! I don't think I would venture near a place were wolverines might lurk... The only wolverine I would be willing to entertain in some fashion, is the one from X-Men... Hugh Jackman!!!!
Hey! I can cook from scratch! Provided that I have a decent recipe book and that I don't have to kill what I am cooking, myself.
a not so soon to be extinct species: a man that demands to split all expenses equally, because of women's liberation, but demands to be waited upon, hand and foot, by his "woman"... she doing all the housework, child rearing, and holding a career...
You shouldn't have to give anything up... love is supposed to be unconditional... if you have to give something up, then there are conditions... You should rejoyce in love, not suffer through it... it should be a gain-gain-situation...
I think relocation is always a possibility, provided that the two parties involved have met before and know each other, and that the relocation is possible. That the relocating party will be able to find suitable employment, and if things don't work out, then, these two people we'll be able to live a life in the same area, without conflict and no arrest warrants or court orders necessary.
Also, I believe some people really looking to find their soulmate here or in any other dating site, refrain from posting the relocation bit, in fear that it might arise suspicions that they want to meet someone only to be able to get into their country. I refer specifically to Americans fearing that they are sought after because of a Green Card... I once saw written in a guys profile that if the lady was not American, she should already have a Green Card.
All three of my kids are bilingual... with my first husband I had trouble trying to convey to him the importance of our first daughter to be able to speak my native language which is Spanish; insecure @$$ he is he thought that we would gang up against him and speak Spanish among ourselves, to plot against him...
My second husband was no better... he didn't want me speaking English to the children, as we lived within a Spanish speaking community... I wouldn't budge... and now all three speak, write and read both English and Spanish, Spanish being the at-home language...
Being bilingual has afforded me many rewards... and I am capable of doing my job in any environment... culturally speaking... I also have translator's and official interpreter's license, which rounds up the slary nicely at the end of the month...
If I see your "big and beautiful" (yeah, right) @$$, wading through the swamps, passing gators, snakes, the illegal cubans, Salvadoreans, Nicaraguans and everything else, drug runner hide outs, the mosquito wall, trying to get to my window... I'll shoot you myself!
Of course, she has sheer curtains and lives at street level... I wouldn't walk to her window and purposedly look in... It will take a 6'3 stud in nothing but his Adam suit, sweating doing situps, pushups and the bar thing....
I'll see a homely looking woman, with reading glasses on sitting at ther home pc, wearing short and a tank to, her pulled up in a pony-tail, and eating some kind of nuts, and pouring through property contracts
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RE: Are You a Child of the 80's?
Well, "Girls just wanted to have fun" and I told my dad "Papa don't preach..."