I don't know what it means when something is "too cute" or "too funny" or "too right", but more and more it seems like everything is. Since I've had a baby, I'm informed on a regular basis that she is too-something. I never know whether to say thank you or fuck you in response.
Up until now, being "too" something was just plain bad.
If you're too fat, too goofy, too bald, too short, too tall, too negative, too loud, too sick, too talkative, too distracted, too critical it meant someone didn't want to date you, go to a movie with you, or sit next to you on an airplane. Sometimes all three.
The common understanding of "too" is being in excess of a threshold of something. Too fat (for example) would mean that there is a certain degree of heft allotted per person, but this someone has exceeded your standards making them less desireable company.
So, what does too funny mean? There is an allowance of funny before a person becomes unbearable? Someone who is too cute makes your cones and rods explode? It just doesn't make sense. Where is the threshold for funny?
Personally, I'd take all the excessively funny and cute people that have been unfortunately labeled as such and put them right in my 'inner circle.' (Oh stop it, we all have one.) I have no limit on funny or cute. I also have no limit on tactful truth or beauty. Come one, come all.
But since this advancement and innovation in the field of excessive characteristics, now being "too" something is exceedingly common. I can't fit everyone in my circle.
It'd be too much. Just...too much.
Unedited ramblings of an Almost-30 Liberal Humanist Employed New Mother.
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I feel like regardless of the fact that I lurk on the "Born in October" board, that I owe it to you to let you know that I now lurk on your blog, and I only wish that I could be your friend :). There was that huge thread about "why" directed to the lurkers. My only answer is that it's better to be expected to be an idiot than to be proven to be one, and, quite frankly, your (sometimes blunt) opinions of a person frighten me! I would be totally terrified to be found out as a person that you don't agree with. So, I've taken to your blog to say that I'm totally intimidated by you, and value your opinion much more highly than I (maybe) should. As a person that has great interest in psychology and writing, I have GREAT appreciation for your skill in both. Keep on with your informative (even if controversial) takes on parenting. In that vein, I love every one of your blogs and posts. Still, I contemplated being anonymous through this post :).
Anyway, thanks for your bluntly refreshing posts on WTE, and forgive me for lurking both there and here (note: no exclamation points were unfairly used in this post :))
Wow, thank you-- I think?
Firstly, I'm not one of those people who insists on lurkers being "outted", so thanks for the voluntary reveal. :) I always forget that people read my blather. Haha
Secondly, please know that it doesn't take consistent agreement to be my friend. I like a few basic things in common and then past that, I pretty much like anyone that can make me laugh and doesn't take themselves (or me) too seriously.
Thirdly, I apologize! I certainly have no intention to intimidate. This has been something I've been told throughout my life. It's a downfall to confidence... intimidation is not the goal, so please never be afraid to disagree with me! LOL Frankly, I usually like it when people do. :-p
Nice to have ya, and thank you for your fair treatment of exclamatory punctuation. ;)
Well, I'm glad you take e-stalkers in stride. I guess that's why I voluntarily outed myself here. Lurking on the boards is one thing; lurking on somebody's personal blog is an entirely different (/creepy) thing.
Maybe one day I will out myself on the boards, too *thinking about it right now* so we may be able to engage in discourse in the future, but I know that there are way too many people who are bothered by the lurkers, so we'll see.
Until then, I'll be on the lookout for more opportunities to be entertained by your tactless ramblings :)
I think the only time people really take issue with "lurkers" is when their first posts are to insult or criticize someone else.
But hey, I say go in with a bang. Come in swinging! They'll know who you are after that!
Ha- I'm not one to go in with a bang. Probably yet another reason I have stayed silent at WTE and admired you. I tend to be a "Yes Man" and you tend to be anything but :).
By the way, thanks for the WTE introduction. Haha.
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