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Ever hear of Kleenex? The sudden, and apparently unstoppable, urge to spit seems to be a guy thing. I’ve known men of all races and classes to spit in public, but have never once seen a woman do it. I have not personally ever felt the need or the urge to spit except for when I was home sick with pneumonia. Again, I think that if someone knows he has a persistent need to expel mucus, he should carry a hankie.
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Name : Jane, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 41, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : pastry chef, Education level : 4 Years of College,Brenda asked a straightforward unassuming question. The only statement she made was that she did not personally find a particular fashion attractive. How you could read a fear of robbery into her innocent question about tooth decoration says, I think, more about you than about her. I only write this because I am excited about this forum and the open discourse it could inspire. The first part of your answer is perfectly in keeping with this spirit of openness; your last statement, however, is not.
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Name : Jane, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 41, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : pastry chef, Education level : 4 Years of College,I also think it’s a fashion statement which, along with jeans whose waist is worn around the upper-thigh, Ugg boots, flared-bottomed capri pants, and mullets is an asthetic I just don’t get. But that’s me. It is a trend which, in my recent experience, has been favored by black and hispanic youth, some white kids, or just anyone heavily into the rap scene. However, it is a look which apparently (maybe someone with more knowledge of it can respond) has been popular in traditional Latino cultures for a very long time. (Didn’t the Mayans practice something like this?)And today many Latinos wear them. My next-door neighbors, who are Mexican, put silver caps on their four-year old’s teeth. They own their house in our lower-middle class neighborhood, the husband speaks decent English, the wife, none.The husband has gold canines, I’ve only gotten a shy close-lipped smile from the wife, so I don’t know about her. They are very quiet and friendly and maintain their home and yard well. They listen to Tejano and Ranchera, not rap. I have met many Salvadorans who have gold teeth, construction workers, independent used car dealers, and I did business with an Ecuadoran woman who favored the very colorful traditional dress, long braids and gold teeth. Also, now that I think of it, when I was a kid I used to notice a lot of older conservatively dressed black folks with gold teeth, and at the time I didn’t think anything of it, I just assumed that maybe they had had a bad tooth and it was a decorative way of fixing it. Since I don’t have any gold teeth I probably shouldn’t have responded and I am unable to answer any ‘why’s’ but I wanted to throw in my observations in the hope of encouraging more responses from any of the dentally adorned folks out there.
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Name : Jane, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 41, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : pastry chef, Education level : 4 Years of College,
