At school ALL day, had to chaperone a dance tonight, all the girls in their beautiful colourful dresses, all the boys in their dark suits and white shirts. Why is that? Who decreed that for men to look smart and sexy they should dress up like penguins, and for women to look smart and sexy they should wear as little as possible?
And all this in -4C temps outside, pretty damn cold, even when wearing one of their flimsy coats, with all those long legs sticking out, brrrrrh! And all the high heels, my "little girls" walking awkwardly in the highest of silly supposedly sexy heels, the world is indeed a funny place. Are we all just brainwashed into thinking such things are sexy? Victoria's Secret has subliminal messaging in its commercials? High heels mess up your feet, give you corns, they change your posture, even your organs can be affected by how they force you to walk, according to some researchers. Sure, lingerie is sexy, but to wear tight, ill-fitting shoes makes as much sense as Chinese foot-binding.
And the three chaperones who volunteered because "otherwise they would have to cancel the dance" were the old toppies, the softies, and we had to act like policemen, something foreign to our natures, and be aware always as to possible crimes and misdemeanours which might perhaps be committed on school property And I am exhausted by all this, so I will hurry off to bed, feeling rather old and tired and decrepit, with my faithful little blue hot-water-bottle for company.
I drew a picture of one of my students drawing this afternoon. He is probably one of the best students I have ever had, a very gifted and intellectually advanced boy.
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