July 9, 2004

• My co-worker came in today with huge hickey on her neck.  Hickeys are bad.  They are bruises.  Bruises occur when your flesh is damaged.  That can't be good.  She's a nursing student.  She must know the long-term and collective tissue damage that occurs with hickeys.  Not only that, but when I asked her why she let her boyfriend do that, she said it was his way of showing that he cared about her.  I hope that's not the only way he shows he cares about her.

  
  

  I've heard guys say that giving someone a hickey was the equivalent of "marking their territory."  I usually tell them that they are insecure and need to get over it.  I was flipping through the channels and caught a glimpse of Judge Judy.  Some guy was sueing his ex-girlfriend for breaking something.  The judge asked her how old she was.  "Eighteen," she said.

  
  

  "And how old is he?"

  
  

  "Seventeen."

  
  

  "What were you thinking?"

  
  

  "I don't know."

  
  

  "It takes guys longer to mature..."

  
  

  I turned off the television after that, but this is common knowledge right?  Surely, there can't be any young guys that are mature.  This isn't a huge stereotype or a type of social mechanism to get girls to not date younger guys is it?  Every stereotype is grounded in a grain of truth but some stereotypes are twisted so far out of proportion, that it's utterly ridiculous.

  
  

  And what about that double standard of how it's socially acceptable that older guys can date younger women, but not the other way around?  I give much credit to those who have broken that social norm like Bo Apostol and Sorcy Apostol.  That's a couple that, in my opinion, are truly in love, after at least 20 years of marriage.  You hear of couples being jaded after being married a long time, but there's those few that you just know still enjoy being in love as much as ever.  Haha.  I must be in the mood to watch "The Notebook."  I haven't heard much about it aside from the fact that it is a romance.  Maybe I'll give it a shot.  Who's up for it?

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