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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (32330)	3/10/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

if your children are freaking out in any way, there has been too much pressure My children are far more likely to suffer from too little pressure: like many parents, I tend to remember my own problems and overcompensate in the other direction. Important to remember, though, that the pressure does not always come directly from the parents. Certainly in my case it did not. I thought they were perfect, knew that they had gone to extremes to create a perfect circumstance for me, and put pressure on myself to live up to my own impossibly outrageous idea of what their expectations were. I don't think they saw the pressure, simply because they weren't the ones applying it. As I said, the young mind can be a very strange thing. I agree that the messages that "we" are sending to women about physical appearance are ridiculous, especially since it is pretty clear that women who place their eggs in the physical basket are likely to end up with blatant assholes who treat them as inanimate ornaments and dump them as soon as a better ornament comes along. My own view is that the whole thing stems from the inexplicable female tendency to fixate on celebrities and pretend that they are real, which, as you already know, is something I find ridiculous. I think an awful lot of men are sending an entirely different message; at a certain point each woman has to decide for herself which message to listen to.