Friday Sort Of Post

[ithildin]

Since it's Friday, let's play the 'ask me a question' game again. And if you ask me a question, I'll ask you one in return -- if you want :) Any topic, but don't expect answers on anything too TMI or personal.

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Because spinster is a more accurate description IMHO. Once you pass a certain age and have never been married, and are childless, single doesn't quite cover it. Single seems like it may be temporary, while spinster indicates a more permanent state of affairs. And spinster is a good word in general :)

[ursus-trollkin.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Spinster, to me, is a relic of an age when women were considered wives and home makers, and nothing more, and a woman who reached a certain age without ever being married, and are childless were viewed as failures. I guess in the long and short that is why it puzzled me. The term spnister, again to me, carries connotations of failure, which I do not think you are.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That's okay :) I disagree though, I think it's a perfectly good word myself. It's not about being a failure, more a state of being. Heh.

[ursus-trollkin.livejournal.com]

I never meant to imply that being a spinster meant failure. Just that due to usage the word has that connotation. I personally prefer to think of you as a well seasoned bachelorette. And I got by without a question. haha.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

"bachelorette" give me afwul 70s flashbacks of the who the Dating Game [g]

Your question: what mythical creature would you like to be?

[ursus-trollkin.livejournal.com]

Good point. I prefer to think of it in the terms described in Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

As for what mythical creature . . . I would have to say I would want to be an arktantherope. Or werebear.