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[elfs]

I was talking to Yamaraashi-chan, and the subject came around to boys. She's in that stage where she and her friends are figuring out what the label "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" meant. I asked her why she thought having "a boyfriend" rather than "boys who are friends" was an important process. The conversation went back and forth for a while, and at one point I said, "Besides, boys are pretty dumb sometimes."

"Boys are not dumb!" she said.

I looked at her over the top of my bifocals and said, "Kid, I've been a boy. I've dated boys. Believe me. Boys can be dumb."

She was predictably unfazed. "Well, the ones I like aren't dumb."

She'll learn soon enough.

Comments

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between they "can be" dumb and they "are" dumb. I'm with her on this, the one's I like aren't dumb. But they can sure be doofuses sometimes. ;p

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

My little sister and I had a very similar discussion when she was about 13. About two weeks after she started 'dating' her first boyfriend, she came storming home with "WHY ARE ALL BOYS SO STUPID!!??!?"

[mokie-sassafras.livejournal.com]

My son just asked me that yesterday, what being someone's boyfriend meant when you're in elementary school. I told him that I thought it was mostly just talking about it, that you weren't expected to actually do anything. Gods, I hope I'm right about that one!