In Memory of Traditional Gender Roles and Lessons Learn from Hosting a Bachelorette Party

[spreadnparanoia]

This was a rather eventful Memorial Day weekend. Friday I went to La Macchina, a new Italian restaurant in Evanston, with Kevin and Chris and then to see X-Men: Days of Future Past. I'd wanted to go to La Macchina since walking past it and seeing that they serve linguini with clams the way I like it, with full in their shells clams rather than lots

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[adam_0oo]

I have heard the same things from guys in strip clubs, that getting lap dances mostly made them miss their wives.

[cassielsander]

At the risk of self-advertisement, both of these experiences remind me of the one & only category I've contributed to TV Tropes: Retargeted Lust.

[spreadnparanoia]

Nice. I really enjoy the distinction between that and "I'll be in my bunk."

[pooka_madness]

• I will allow my dog to eat vomit if it means I have one less vomit mess to clean up. I'm not proud. She was eager to help.

Awesome.

[pooka_madness]

Also: I am sorry I didn't really get a chance to catch up with you & Kevin while I was briefly in town. I hope things are well with y'all and your dog.

[sabrielrose]

...yeah, sorry about that. I was trying to clean up the bathroom for you, but was a little hard with a quasi-passed out person in the way.

It was definitely the drinks that Sev was mixing- I don't have a great tolerance, but I didn't see her mixing them so I can only assume they were a lot stronger than they tasted. Not an experience I care to repeat anytime soon (stripper notwithstanding.)

[spreadnparanoia]

I really do appreciate your clean up efforts. I wasn't able to do more until the space had been vacated but then it was actually pretty easy given what you'd already done.

[rollick]

We got some of that gender-roles stupidity when we last went to Mexico, when the guy who was booking our excursions kept offering us bonuses, like "$100 in shopping coupons for the lady, and a bottle of tequila for the gentleman so he has something to keep him interested while she's shopping all day." The only reason we didn't correct him was because being annoyed with him helped make us more immune to his upsell tricks.

That said, I would have told both those mattress salesmen that a) it was none of their damn business what I do in bed, and b) they'd lost a sale due to their stupid bullshit. Gross.

[lassarina]

I'm so sorry about the mess. I really appreciate you having hosted, and I had a great time. ♥

Wow, that is an awful lot of gender essentialist BS to have packed into one weekend.