"If I Can Make It Here..."

Boobies:



Tits:



Learn the difference!

Honestly . . .

"Boobies" is what my niece used to say when she wanted to be breast-fed. I don't think it's a term I've used since before I had any to talk about.

"Boobs" is good and serviceable, but usually in a slightly humorous context.

"Tits" is used somewhat contemptuously ("I think she got those tits out of a box"

"Bosom" is nice, but a wee bit . . . fey?

For "Ta-tas" etc., see "Boobs" above.

"Breasts," on the other hand, is not merely "correct," and even polite, but (to me) a little poetic. ("Laying his head upon her snowy breasts," etc.)

While I'd love to believe that gender stereotypes are solely culturally determined, having had a son and a daughter, I am fairly convinced otherwise. I did all I could not to push either of them in any particular direction and was quite heartened when my daughter asked for this huge roaring Godzilla toy for Christmas one year. By bedtime, she was wheeling the thing round the house in a dolly pram with a little pink blacket wrapped around its knees. Meanwhile, her brother was playing hand-grenades with Barbie's head. *shrug*

Of course it's important to try not to reinforce the stereotypes further, but there is quite a fundamental difference, on average, in the "raw materials", so to speak. I think to ignore it completely and try to treat girls and boys as if they are exactly the same can have some bad effects. For example, I have been reading a lot lately about how boys do worse at school, especially in the early years, in part because the educational models are geared too much towards how girls learn. Boys in the classroom often end up being seen as "problems" because their behaviour and learning styles don't easily fit in to such a system.

honestly, there's me trying to be all thoughtful and intelligent and you lot ...

My bloke calls them norks.

I think I agree. Why does it have to be Nature OR Nurture? Humans are incredibly complicated: I suspect that there are zillions of factors that go into producing our identities.

I have a friend with a young son. Being a "responsible" parent and a feminist, she went out of her way to keep him from being exposed to violent TV and movies, comics, video games, etc., and she refused to buy him -- or let him accept -- toys with violent themes, including even water guns.

So, he took to running around with a branch from a tree, yelling "bang bang" . . .

/me shrugs

BTW, "norks" is HILARIOUS!

But who taught her that, is my question!!!



I don't like the word "boobs"... It makes me think of jokes my mother would tell



May I suggest "titties"? This is a close second to "boobies."



Makes me think of "Bosom Buddies" LOLz



Ta-tas... does not compute.



No offense, but only a woman could get excited reading that sentence

Ugh. What IS it with this urge to infantilize??? Do you ask your lover to roll over onto her "bum bum"????


Sorry . . . but WHO is it, precisely, whom you are trying to excite? Billy Bob, who has the locker next to yours at the gym?

Learn, Smify. Learn.

LMAO

When I was a kid I spent equal time playing dolly tea time with my sister and GI Joe/Star Wars with my brother... I never asked for either of those types of toys myself though, only books and art supplies... But well OK, I did have a really large collection of teddy bears... (Oh God, I'm not actually sure I should hit "Submit Reply" on this!!)

I think "bum bum" must be a Canadian term?



OK as long as you are trying to excite other girls with the flowery breasties prose

You betcha! Beloved of four-year old Canadians everywhere!



"breasties"???????

Are there any anatomical terms to which you do NOT apply the "ies" ending?

Awwwwwww . . .

S'ok, I won't tell ANYONE. Honest!

(We wouldn't want people thinking you are "sensitive," now would we?)

OK, well I say "ass" or "bottom." Usually after I've smacked it, for the record.



I coined a new term, just for you, Scylla



Yes... any that are my own LOLz

I am very sensitive.. In several places!!

I walked RIGHT into that one again, didn't I?

*sigh*

And you loved it LOLz

Norks,

Puppies (particularly .. "would you look at the puppies noses on those",

Knockers,

Ear Warmers,

Fun Cushions,

Top Bollocks,

Jugs,

Melons,

and my particular favourite:

Devil's Dumplings..

Would someone explain WTH is a nork? LOLz



OK, even I am left speechless on this one :X

Here's the thing, though. NONE of these terms does anything for me. SOME of them ("Jugs"???? Ewwww!) are downright turn-offs.

Any women here want to dissent?

I infer that titties and boobies do a little something then

More than "Jugs" or "Fun cushions"? Yeah. These things are all relative.

Oh come on..

"Her Devil's Dumplings glistened warm and enticing in the moonlight, needing only a copious serving of his warm custard to make them complete."

No... really..?

Oh god!! I laughed so hard I fell off my chair. Then I touched myself.

(The interesting difference is that I don't think YOU are serious . . . but Smify is!)

Nice to see that a discussion on "Women becoming successful in SL"....involves 5 pages of booby comments.

LOL

Well, so long as women are saddled with "boobies," instead of "breasts," I see impediments to our further success . . .