Renaissance Woman
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I'm currently visiting my brother for the holiday. He took me over to have dinner with friends of his this evening. During the conversation, one guy was teased about having had "a bunch of big girls sitting on [his] lap and flirting with him" during some boat trip they took. The guy didn't say much, just kind of shrugged, but it was clear that he wasn't happy about being reminded, and that it was a negative thing.
And I didn't say a word. Not one. It would have been so simple to say something like "What was wrong with that?" but I didn't. Hypocracy on my part.
Later, we're watching Aeon Flux on DVD, and my brother is making drooling comments about Charlize Theron. Fine and dandy; I don't care. But then he throws this at me: "Don't give up on working out! You could look like that!" This time I did respond, saying that I doubted my body would ever look like that even if I worked out all day long, and that it would be weird and I wouldn't like being that skinny anyway. Then his female friend chimes in "I'm skinnier, and I don't look like that," which she meant as some kind of encouragement to me. At that point I shrugged it off because I didn't want to get into a potentially heated argument with my brother's friend.
Hypocracy on my brother's part: he claims to not be into big girls, but there's a woman who's interested in him who's big. And he says she's cute and has sort of gone out with her. She's not good relationship material for unrelated reasons, but WTF? And when I pointed out that she was big and he claimed not to like that, she shrugged and repeated "she's cute."
Gah. I feel I should be more proactive, but I don't want to make waves. Maybe they're mutually exclusive.
And I didn't say a word. Not one. It would have been so simple to say something like "What was wrong with that?" but I didn't. Hypocracy on my part.
Later, we're watching Aeon Flux on DVD, and my brother is making drooling comments about Charlize Theron. Fine and dandy; I don't care. But then he throws this at me: "Don't give up on working out! You could look like that!" This time I did respond, saying that I doubted my body would ever look like that even if I worked out all day long, and that it would be weird and I wouldn't like being that skinny anyway. Then his female friend chimes in "I'm skinnier, and I don't look like that," which she meant as some kind of encouragement to me. At that point I shrugged it off because I didn't want to get into a potentially heated argument with my brother's friend.
Hypocracy on my brother's part: he claims to not be into big girls, but there's a woman who's interested in him who's big. And he says she's cute and has sort of gone out with her. She's not good relationship material for unrelated reasons, but WTF? And when I pointed out that she was big and he claimed not to like that, she shrugged and repeated "she's cute."
Gah. I feel I should be more proactive, but I don't want to make waves. Maybe they're mutually exclusive.
