Here we come... walkin' down the street
Sep. 21st, 2011 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenmuseAt work today, I was listening to "The Best of The Monkees" on my iPod, and it took me back to a happy place in my childhood. I was probably about 4-5 years old, "The Monkees" were on TV a lot, so I watched that as well as listening to Shaun Cassidy (who I had a crush on). And I've never told anyone this before, but when I was a kid, I wondered if perhaps Shaun wore the same underwear as me - cotton floral briefs.
I don't remember anyone telling me that I couldn't do something because I was a girl. One day, I'd be using my dad's toolkit to play dentist with my stuffed animals; another day, I was playing grocery store with the shipping box my dad had gotten from his job at UPS. Sometimes I wanted to be a gymnast, doing my thing (tumbling, somersaults and the occasional cartwheel) alongside Nadia Comaneci and Cathy Rigby - or be an ice skater like Dorothy Hamill.
I had both the Fisher Price Medical Kit and the Fisher Price Tool Kit, put Barbie in Ken's clothes and occasionally gave Barbie mohawks or Sinead O'Connor do's. I did get some grief over the whole Barbie thing, but no reprimanding.
I wanted to be friends with Shirley Temple, because I watched her movies on TV every weekend and didn't realize that the movies were from the 1930s. I was seriously disappointed when I found out how old the films were!
And during this whole time, I was reading my dad's "National Lampoon" magazines (which he knew about), and his porno magazines (which he didn't know about).
I don't remember anyone telling me that I couldn't do something because I was a girl. One day, I'd be using my dad's toolkit to play dentist with my stuffed animals; another day, I was playing grocery store with the shipping box my dad had gotten from his job at UPS. Sometimes I wanted to be a gymnast, doing my thing (tumbling, somersaults and the occasional cartwheel) alongside Nadia Comaneci and Cathy Rigby - or be an ice skater like Dorothy Hamill.
I had both the Fisher Price Medical Kit and the Fisher Price Tool Kit, put Barbie in Ken's clothes and occasionally gave Barbie mohawks or Sinead O'Connor do's. I did get some grief over the whole Barbie thing, but no reprimanding.
I wanted to be friends with Shirley Temple, because I watched her movies on TV every weekend and didn't realize that the movies were from the 1930s. I was seriously disappointed when I found out how old the films were!
And during this whole time, I was reading my dad's "National Lampoon" magazines (which he knew about), and his porno magazines (which he didn't know about).
