Re: The difficulties of raising your kids to be properly homophobic

Pat Kight <kightp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Michael Rosen wrote:
> 
>> I, on the other hand, go by Michael anywhere and everywhere.  It's a
>> measure of how well someone knows me that they call me anything else,
or
>> any variant thereof.
> 
> I've met you only once, briefly, and didn't explicitly know your 
> preference, but you impressed me as having far too much gravitas for me 
> to refer to you as "Mike."
> 
> I. on the other hand, cringe at "Patricia" - even though I'm told I 
> insisted on it in elementary school - because being called that makes me

> think I'm in Big Trouble.
> 

At least it's actually your name.  My ex's name was Kim.  That's what was
on her birth certificate - it wasn't short for anything.  And it drove her
up a tree when people would call her Kimberly.

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