"The difference between boys and girls"

[OtherMichael]

Is that Jack Horkheimer, after a planetarium-fight?

[noahdjango]

KEEP LOOKING UP!
 

[anon15383236]

Is this a repost from the early days of BoingBoing? Like, from the 1950s?

[anon34697667]

The difference between boys and girls

I know the answer!

- YouTube

[joeair61]

@markstephan

I used to love hitting myself in the head with an empty 2-liter bottle.

What! USED to. Come back baby rock and roll never forgets. Of course now a days I use 16 oz bottles because I am trying to cut back a little.

[anon29631895]

@nimelennar

And I, as an adult man, have done the Cups thing

I regularly catch myself doing this cups thing as I’m walking through the office…

[peemlives]

Ever bite a slinky?

[noahdjango]

@joeair61

Come back baby rock and roll never forgets.

he used to shake 'em down, but now he’s more concerned about his dignity : )

[TobinL]

I used to do that with juggling clubs (well my softer plastic ones) while juggling.

[replicant1968]

@anansi133

(Seriously, I know enough trans people and gender outlaws to see the kind of damage these tropes cause. Kids who don’t fit these stereotypes are made to feel wrong from the inside out. It’s just celebrating the way life just naturally is, for the majority who fit, but for those who don’t, it’s hell on earth. Enough already

Many of us experience the pain of the dominant culture’s constant celebration of itself. We learn to deal. My first hand experience of my friends and colleagues in transgendered community tells me they have a stronger backbone for this relentless reality than you do.

[awfulhorrid]

@replicant1968

My first hand experience of my friends and colleagues in transgendered community tells me they have a stronger backbone for this relentless reality than you do.

Sometimes we do. Other times, especially when you’re younger and developing into your identity, you’re just left standing there wondering “Well where do I fit in, then?” If we have a stronger backbone for it than cis people do, it’s because we see it so much.

[failquail]

Haha, i was about to say that.

They also make great substitute lightsabres. You get to swordfight plus have awesome noises

[anon50609448]

I’m willing to believe that head-hitting is a gender linked trait, but clearly women do it. It would be very difficult to disentangle the cultural norms around politeness from the perpetual sense that there is something unaligned in your head that you just have to tap back into place.

[LordInsidious]

No, but now I’m equal part curious and confused…

[TooGoodToCheck_]

I saw one person endorsing slinky biting, and I thought, “well, that’s unusual” and then another apparently unrelated person in the same thread says the same thing. Apparently slinky biting is a thing!

I’m sufficiently paranoid about my teeth these days that I’d be a little hesitant to bite down on metal. maybe gently I guess.

My thing with slinkies as a kid was to blow up a balloon inside a slinky - then it makes starwars noises.

[markstephan]

Now I just hit my kids’ heads with empty 2-liters. Both boys.

[jerwin]

So the modern classroom consists of 14 instances of this?

[peemlives]

@TooGoodToCheck_

My thing with slinkies as a kid was to blow up a balloon inside a slinky - then it makes starwars noises.

So if you bite a slinky, then drop it, you get the starwars noises directly to your inner ear through your teeth.

[anon73430903]

@replicant1968

Many of us experience the pain of the dominant culture’s constant celebration of itself. We learn to deal. My first hand experience of my friends and colleagues in transgendered community tells me they have a stronger backbone for this relentless reality than you do.

The ones who survive do, but too many don’t get that far.

[anon67050589]

@jerwin

So the modern classroom consists of 14 instances of this?

In 7th grade, particularly? Yup, that pretty much covers it!