Bryan Simmons wrote:

> 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

Gender is so 2019. If you're really woke, you don't even have a gender
anymore.

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