On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 11:59:20 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-04-16 12:09 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10:18:07 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
> >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:53:32 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
> >>
> >>> I can't find any via Google. :-(
> >> Blowing your nose into a rag and stuffing it into your pocket isn't
> >> vert attractive. Especially for nurses who are supposed to be pretty
> >> sanitary-minded.
> >>
> >> -sw
> >>
> > But he's not a Reg Nurse (Reg stands for regular), he's a Ped Nurse.
> > He loves being a Ped Nurse. Ped stands for...
> >
> I remember getting hankerchiefs for Christmas from my father's old maid
> aunts. It was nice of them to remember us, but paper tissue had been
> invemted. The idea of blowing my nose and then wadding it up in a snotty
> old rag was repulsive to me even when I was a kid. Once in a while I
> see someone using one in public and I have to admit that it grosses me
> out.... not using the hankie, but shoving it back into their pocket.
>
I would call that a *do things appropriate to your gender* kind of present.
There's this mindset that runs through a lot of cultures that folks doing
gender appropriate things is highly desirable, and gifting gender specific
items is a common expression of that mindset.
>
--Bryan