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February 27, 2007

Stupid gender norms

Four days ago I started a nightly moisturizing routine like girls are supposed to do to ward off old lady wrinkles. Today I woke up and the skin around my mouth felt burned. It's broken out into all kinds of tiny blisters and blemishes, not bad enough to make people stare on the street, but painful. Stupid lotion. This is how it always goes when I try to be girly. I wear mascara, I poke myself in the eye. I buy high heels, I trip over my own feet. I give up, okay? From now on I'm one of the boys.

Posted by didofoot at February 27, 2007 10:36 AM

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Awesome. You can come hang out in my treehouse if you want. We'll play pirates and say yarrrrr and shoot flaming arrows at nearby ships.

*only not flaming, because we'll get in trouble.

Posted by: Dianna at February 27, 2007 02:17 PM

But moistizing is general-neutral! Hasn't living in the castro taught you that wrinkleless skin makes men prettier too?
I gave up on any kind of skin regime long ago, but I still try to force one on my boyfriend.

Posted by: robyn at February 27, 2007 06:19 PM

Robyn is correct. In fact, I used some of your moisturizer at the party on Saturday to ward off dishpan hands.

Posted by: matt at February 27, 2007 08:01 PM

As not-Kurt Vonnegut would agree, the most important thing you can do so as to not look old is to wear sunscreen.

Posted by: sean at February 27, 2007 10:03 PM

Well, boys, you are totally welcome to this lotion. My burned face continues to ache and blister, and you know what doesn't help? Gene quoting Space Ghost by continually telling me to "Put that in your pipe and smoke it! With your BURNED LIPS!"

Gene has not actually done this at all. But if he did, it wouldn't help.

Posted by: didofoot at February 28, 2007 11:05 AM

are we talking the Dove nighttime lotion in your bathroom? because if we are, i will totally take that! you should try lotion for sensitive skin or lotion that's hypoallergenic. i mean, you're just having an allergic reaction to this one brand. you should try one that's more for people with skin allergies.

p.s. you should see tyler. he's got chapped skin under his lip. it looks like a second mouth. do you look like that? because it looks freaky.

Posted by: michele at February 28, 2007 04:35 PM

do not fear the lotion. as michele said, find one that works for your skin. and as patrick swayze said in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.", "moisturize, moisturize, moisturize."

but on the girly things hurt people topic? i was curling my hair yesterday when the iron slipped out of my hand and landed on my nose. so, now i look like rudolph.

Posted by: tracy at March 1, 2007 01:58 PM

and who came up with eyelash curlers? i swear i grew up believing they were a form of medieval torture device. freaked me out.

Posted by: michele at March 1, 2007 04:15 PM

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