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Old 10-13-2004, 02:32 PM
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Re: Re: Re: Re: My rant for today

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Originally posted by stardusttwin
But there is a thing as TOO much self confidence....if your waist is 35 and you wear a 44DDD you have NO business trying to squeeze in the same mini skirt that said 22 inch waist Barbie doll wears...the "I love how I look and I'm gona flaunt it" mentality has gone too far!!

On a serious note I think oversized confidence is more pervasive than just clothes. I mentor a teen who is always complaining how the teacher disrespects her - by correcting how she be talking and marking up her papers with red ink - she swears she is a great writer and the teacher is just hating. I've tried to explain that if she insists on speaking TWO languages then she needs to master both - English class is not the place to express your ebonic skills do that in creative writing...her head is so swole she thinks I'm a hater too. After a while I just stop talking about school with her- I have my degree.

While I don't want to dissuade her enthusiasm I've read her "work" and the truth is at 17 she is barely writing at a level I wrote at in 8th grade...the red marks are corrections in grammer and spelling....but you can't tell her anything. She knows everything and can't be taught anything while rocking a 65 average...

God bless all of you teachers...I don't have the patience at all.
Trust me, I don't approve of the squeezing into a miniskirt AT ALL. I'm a woman of size, and I dress classically and appropriately. All I am saying is that if I had a daughter, I would be mortified if I found her torturing herself to be skinny if it's not meant to be. And no child of mine would look tacky.
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