[Maggie B.]

I haven't noticed this at all. In fact, in my experience, the drivers who are most likely to be going at dangerously slow rates are old (over 60), white Southerners--even more so than old white people from, say, the Midwest.

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[Maggie B.]

And I think most gay people would also disagree with your assessment. From the first point that I was attracted to anybody, I was attracted to girls and boys. There was no concious decision there at all. In fact, there were times in my teen years where (because of teasing from peers and because of people convincing me that homosexuality was evil) I would have LOVED to just wake up and decide to not be attracted to women. But it doesn't work that way, any more than you could wake up one day and decide to not be attracted to men. Some things are choices. The act of having sex is a choice. The decision to agree to a date with someone is a choice. You choose friends, pasttimes, what volunteer groups you belong to...but who you are attracted to is not a choice, it just happens. I have no idea whether it's caused by nature or nurture...most likely, it's a combination of both...but CHOICE is not really a factor.

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[Maggie B.]

I grew up friends with a Crystal, a Rhiannon, and a Spring Dawn. One name sounds like a stripper, one's just confusing, and one is ungodly hippie-dippie. Trust me, white people give thier babies stupid, weird and/or unprofessional names every day. But the 'stupid baby name' email forwards (and the stereotypes that go with them) are usually written for and by white people and strange white baby names don't get included. I'm not sure whether it's an unconcious thing where 'white' names just don't sound as weird to white people or whether it's a concious decision to not include any name that one of your friends is likely to have called their baby.

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[Maggie B.]

As a redhead who's belly flesh is damn near transluscent, I'll agree...we pale girls probably have something of an obsession with sunblock. As someone said above, getting a sunburn is not a fun experience. If you get a bad one, it can be hard to shower or even sleep. And if your friends are anything like me, getting a bad sunburn is as easy as hanging around outside for a couple hours on a clear day. It doesn't even need to be that hot, just sunny. By the time I was a teenager, I had favorite brands, SPF levels, re-applying times, etc. It's such an everyday thing and you have so many preferences that it just becomes a topic of conversation...like talking about hairstyles or clothes. Plus, there's a self-depeciation aspect to it as well. A lot of us really pale kids got made fun of in grade school for our freckles or our inability to tan, so sitting around talking about using gallon jugs of SPF 50 is just a way to poke fun at yourself. It's almost kind of an unofficial redhead in-joke.

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