Monday, June 14, 2010

Overheard

I was in a very slow-moving line at a cash register today. Two of the customers in front of me had struck up a casual, small-talky conversation, which sort of trailed off when one women made an unexpected joke related to her boyrfriend's testicles.

Moments later, the testicle-joke lady declared to one of her family members that she would "move to another country" if strappy pink high-heeled shoes were made widely available for men.

Neither of these comments was quite as contextless as I've presented them here, but it was the juxtaposition of these two particular statements that seriously irritated me. So, it's okay to comment on a third party's testicles to someone who clearly wasn't expecting the conversation to take that turn, but it's not okay for a dude to feel pretty and click a little bit as he walks?

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