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My favorite Audrey Hepburn movie is How to Steal a Million. I loooooooooooooooooove that movie.  

Also, I agree that Wait Until Dark is definitely a good scary movie.

Well, I mostly commented in the first place because of this:

"Right now the dozen or so regulars on TWG who are girls are planning how they'll object in the forum thread for this article. This is a good thing, as it increases our page hit counts. "


In other words, I was trying to be funny.

And at any rate, as I read it the article didn't say that geekiness itself was learned, just that "action" type stuff, and roleplaying, etc. was a learned behavior. After all, pretending to be a princess or liking magic girl anime is still fantasy.

I chose to do roleplaying on my own, though--my mom's still convinced that roleplaying is evil, in fact.  And though I had a wide range of books to choose from, both mainstream and genre, my favorites for a long time tended toward the post-apocalyptic and the military sci-fi.  So there.

I don't think liking role playing and action fantasy/ sci-fi is a learned behavior for girls, so there.  

My sisters and I often played make believe when we were little. My youngest sister was always a gypsy girl, my other sister was a runaway princess, and I was a reformed assassin (I had all the cool fighting/killing skills without the moral issues that way, I guess) who owned an inn that was always used as the base of operations.

I think the first movie my mom took me to was a Star Wars movie, though.

I think it just helps to have both parents like gaming and speculative fiction.  Brenna's been inundated with such things since birth, after all.  She's been to three movies in the theater--the newest Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and King Kong.  Her favorite toy to chew on is a little green plush dragon with a rattle inside.

One of her favorite activities is actually sitting on Chris's lap as he plays World of Warcraft. She likes when he jumps or kills monsters.

Granted, she's not even four months old yet, so she may turn into a sparkly princess type yet, but I was always more interested in fighting bad guys when I was little...

Oh, and I liked your article. 'Twas a fun read! Good luck on bringing your children over to the geeky side.  

Actually, if you're drinking ginger ale that actually has real ginger in it, it really can make you feel better more than psychologically--ginger reduces nausea. Interesting, yes?

I don't think it's awful at all. I like it! Especially the failing the wisdom check line.

Although, if you do decide to try quilting, sewing three sides of your quilt, and then standing inside it with the batting while your husband helps you pin it in place from the outside before sewing it all up for the final bit is apparently not the best way to go about things.    Not that I know this from personal experience, or anything...

That's really interesting, SE, because I've had the opposite experience--bad experiences from dating right away, good from being friends first. Chris and I were very much friends first.

Really, everybody else realized that we were both interested in each other way before we did. And May 1st will be our 4th anniversary, so it's gone very well so far for us.

So as a successfully married woman , I'd say that successful relationships can start in many different ways, so I really couldn't recommend one way over another--I think it depends upon the personalities of the people involved more than anything else.