Killer Mei Tai Experience at Sushi Restaurant - Page 4

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

Guess I am too intouch with my inner child because the word cute sits fine with me

Would you want to be considered cute because you were female?
Or because of how you spoke?
Or how you dressed?

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Potty Diva

There's a fine line between celebrating diversity and mocking another's differences. Why was using broken english in her post necessary? I didn't see anything "cute" about it.

Oh, BTW, multi username much?

It helped me to "see" her story.

Who has multi usernames? Did I miss something? :

[annettemarie]

Is babywearing always so political?

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by annettemarie

Would you want to be considered cute because you were female?
Or because of how you spoke?
Or how you dressed?

Sure to all of the above.....


Though I would prefer hot, sexy, or knock out!

[Quindin]

Wow - I decided to take refuge on the Babywearing board for a whille in order to take a break from controversies and endless arguments...
I guess I'd better go check if there are new products in the market on the Diapering forum! :LOL

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by annettemarie

Is babywearing always so political?

No......that's what shocked the hay out of me when I went back and read the thread.

[Past_VNE]

Originally Posted by Potty Diva

Oh, BTW, multi username much?

Maybe I misunderstand, but if this is a reference to me and Shanon, look harder. I'm on a laptop, in bed with DS who can't sleep without me these days. DH is in the living room with his supergeek-ready, do-anything desktop.

I would certainly think that our differents styles would attest to that alone, but ah, who am I to judge?

[FuelJetA]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

It helped me to "see" her story.

Who has multi usernames? Did I miss something? :

'someone' is referring to the fact that Past and myself have the same IP. That is b/c we are in the same router in the same house, on 2 seperate computers.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by polihaupt

Wow - I decided to take refuge on the Babywearing board for a whille in order to take a break from controversies and endless arguments...
I guess I'd better go check if there are new products in the market on the Diapering forum! :LOL

:

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by FuelJetA

'someone' is referring to the fact that Past and myself have the same IP. That is b/c we are in the same router in the same house, on 2 seperate computers.

How do you even know someones IP? :

Why would on even care......

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

Sure to all of the above.....


Though I would prefer hot, sexy, or knock out!

We must be coming after this from two completely different places then, because I would prefer intelligent or loving, and not because of my accent or clothes, but because of who I really am.

[FuelJetA]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

Sure to all of the above.....


Though I would prefer hot, sexy, or knock out!

That would be sexist b/c it insinuates that you have are a specific gender. I won't even mention eye color or hair color. We might slip and insinuate race.

[girlndocs]

It's entirely possible to relay a story like this without emphasizing the novelty of someone's racial differences, or casting the other person in a bit part as "cute ethnic character". I know because I saw it done on this very forum.

A woman told how she was shopping in Chinatown with her baby in a new mei tai. She entered a store tended by a man who spoke very little English, and a woman who translated for him. They were surprised to see her carrier and the conversation went like this:

Man: How much did you pay for that?
Mama: About $30.
Man: See? $30 for a lifetime of happiness.

It was a lovely story, it brought tears to my eyes, and it was told with zero little racially-stereotyping cues.

[Past_VNE]

as to my last post, I could have said, "we are on two separate computers" but the picture would not have been so clear.

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by FuelJetA

That would be sexist b/c it insinuates that you have are a specific gender. I won't even mention eye color or hair color.

Um, no, it would be sexist because it would be making value statements about her based on her clothing and how "sexy" it was.

[Quindin]

Originally Posted by FuelJetA

That would be sexist b/c it insinuates that you have are a specific gender. I won't even mention eye color or hair color.

:LOL

[Potty Diva]

Gee, never mentioned names, but it seems the guilty parties are rarin' to go with excuses, I mean...explanations.

I still don't see how using broken english in writing had anything to do with the story. It was racist and something that reminds me of my racist father who used to speak in broken english to the waiters at the Mexican restaurant we frequented, OY VAY!

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by annettemarie

We must be coming after this from two completely different places then, because I would prefer intelligent or loving, and not because of my accent or clothes, but because of who I really am.

Ok....the hot, sexy, knockout thing was a joke....

It doesn't offend me if someone were to say, "Your hair color is so cute!"
"Your eyes are really cute!" "Your accent is cute" (I live in MN ya know )

Is it more meaningful when someone comments about my character.....absolutely! But that does not make the other comments offensive......it just makes them less intimant.

[Potty Diva]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

How do you even know someones IP? :

Why would on even care......

I have no idea (to both questions)

[FuelJetA]

Originally Posted by girlndocs

It's entirely possible to relay a story like this without emphasizing the novelty of someone's racial differences, or casting the other person in a bit part as "cute ethnic character". I know because I saw it done on this very forum.

A woman told how she was shopping in Chinatown with her baby in a new mei tai. She entered a store tended by a man who spoke very little English, and a woman who translated for him. They were surprised to see her carrier and the conversation went like this:

Man: How much did you pay for that?
Mama: About $30.
Man: See? $30 for a lifetime of happiness.

It was a lovely story, it brought tears to my eyes, and it was told with zero little racially-stereotyping cues.

I read this totally differently. The man was being portrayed as intelligent, kind and supportive. Who gives a rat's a$$ about the way she chose to portray the accent.

Also, how accurately was your conversation relayed? Was it more like:
Man: How much did you pay for that?
Mama: About $30.
Man: See? 30 dorrar for a rifetime of happayness.

Is that more accurate? Perhaps not. Either way, I am not going to be offended. The mans words were poignant and that is what was related and accepted (at least by me.)