Comments on: Colored lights can hypnotize http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856/comment-page-1#comment-6991 fillyjonk Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:46 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856#comment-6991 This kind of thing makes me twitch, because I fear the Gender Police may come and take away my female-identity card. I don't even cut my hair every month. Highlights are something that happen in the summer, and only because I'm out in the sun a lot, and the phaeomelanin in my hair reacts funny with the sun. Makeup, maybe $30 in an expensive month, maybe less. Tanning, nothing (I favor the Victorian pale look). Manicure and pedicure? For someone who works with soil and wears field boots a percentage of the time? And waxing...well, I can buy Daisy razors for a couple bucks a dozen, and they don't give me weird rashes. I did spent $700 several years ago on exercise equipment, but that amortises out nicely. Still, last I checked, I had those two X chromosomes...I think this is just a case of someone in La-La-Land thinking it's the norm. And I would hope I'm more complex than my income and my last "cosmetic" procedure (do dental cleanings count?) This kind of thing makes me twitch, because I fear the Gender Police may come and take away my female-identity card.

I don’t even cut my hair every month. Highlights are something that happen in the summer, and only because I’m out in the sun a lot, and the phaeomelanin in my hair reacts funny with the sun. Makeup, maybe $30 in an expensive month, maybe less. Tanning, nothing (I favor the Victorian pale look). Manicure and pedicure? For someone who works with soil and wears field boots a percentage of the time? And waxing…well, I can buy Daisy razors for a couple bucks a dozen, and they don’t give me weird rashes.

I did spent $700 several years ago on exercise equipment, but that amortises out nicely.

Still, last I checked, I had those two X chromosomes…I think this is just a case of someone in La-La-Land thinking it’s the norm.

And I would hope I’m more complex than my income and my last “cosmetic” procedure (do dental cleanings count?)

]]> By: Andrea Harris http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856/comment-page-1#comment-6990 Andrea Harris Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856#comment-6990 Whoops, my bad -- the writer is actually American. On the other hand, apparently he's some connected Hollywood person, which means he's just as out of touch with the real world as Guardian writers. Whoops, my bad — the writer is actually American. On the other hand, apparently he’s some connected Hollywood person, which means he’s just as out of touch with the real world as Guardian writers.

]]> By: Andrea Harris http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856/comment-page-1#comment-6989 Andrea Harris Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:29:42 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/2856#comment-6989 I don't even spend <i>seven</i> dollars a month on my personal appearance. (And it shows, I guess -- heh.) Anyway, the inability of British writers to imagine anything about Americans outside of the two or three of us he's met or the hotel room he's staying in never fails to amaze me. Shades of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,658094,00.html" rel="nofollow">Matthew Engel</a> thinking that Olive Garden was representative of American cuisine. I don’t even spend seven dollars a month on my personal appearance. (And it shows, I guess — heh.) Anyway, the inability of British writers to imagine anything about Americans outside of the two or three of us he’s met or the hotel room he’s staying in never fails to amaze me. Shades of Matthew Engel thinking that Olive Garden was representative of American cuisine.

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