[stylist] Weekly Writing Challenge

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

I like this one a lq.  As a boy who has friends that are girls, I 
would never call them my girlfriends because I'm not dating.
Vejas


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From: Semirhage via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 00:55:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [stylist] Weekly Writing Challenge

Here's mine, and I need no critique, as it's just for fun.
Very neat idea, BTW, Rowena, and thanks for sharing.  Thanks to 
my RP I write
daily, but this topic one is very neat.  Here goes.

Title: Girlfriend
By Semirhage

I'm not one to generally listen to people's conversations, but 
the couple
sitting right beside me in the coffee shop were very close.  
Their table
nearly touching mine, and it was very easy to hear them.  The 
fact their
conversation was interesting and amusing didn't hurt either.  I 
couldn't help
but agree with the first speaker.  She spoke of the nonsensical 
wide spread
social habit of using the term girlfriend' when speaking of a 
mere female
friend that she was not involved with as in dating.  She said 
that it was
socially confusing.  She'd even accidentally asked a woman out, 
assuming she
was gay, when she mentioned having gone somewhere with her 
Girlfriend
Brenda, who she no longer spoke to.  The woman explained that she 
was
straight and that Brenda had only been a female friend.  The 
woman asked why
she didn't just say her friend Brenda then, and that it was 
confusing.  That
there was no reason to mention that Brenda was a girl when the 
name made it
rather obvious.  The other woman now speaks up, laughing and 
saying that it
was just a social convention.  The first woman, in fact her 
girlfriend for
real, asked why and the second could not answer.  The first said 
that if the
were speaking of one another, as they were actually gay and 
dating, the term
girlfriend would be proper but not if she was speaking of a 
straight woman.
Especially as two straight men don't refer to one another as my 
boyfriend
Jim or Bob.  The 2nd woman said that she did refer to her 
straight friends as
her girlfriends, and the two could never agree as to if it was 
confusing or
not to do so.

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head.


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