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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Advanced Audio Blog . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
9 Responses to “Audio Blog #35 - Princesses”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
Thursday at 2:43 pm
Could you tell me what does “with the sound of a miter saw” part imply? I couldn’t clearly understand this part.
Monday at 1:51 am
@yk360
I guess it should mean that she will also do some other things. Not only playing around (with tea parties) but also doing stuff herself - like handiwork with a miter saw.
Monday at 7:53 am
Hi Salivia,
I have done a quick Internet search and came across this info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miter_saw For me, it just sounds off topic.
Maybe she is trying to say that her daughter and she may have occasional conflicts, from time to time, but it’s ok for her daughter to have her own tastes that are very different from hers.
Monday at 10:03 am
Hi everybody,
You both are correct.
The mother, who was never a girly girl, is accepting of her daughter being different from her. Yet at the same time she is hoping that as her daughter grows, she does take an interest in the ‘less girly’ things like a miter saw. (It’s also supposed to be slightly humorous, tea parties being feminine and miter saws being masculine.)
Monday at 10:12 am
Ah, now I got it! The mother was actually talking about machine tools. Yeah, so she is saying like it’ll be ok to be interested in tea-parties-like stuff (or any girly stuff) for now as long as the daughter would be one day interested carpentry stuff so that they can get along together, eventually. Interesting! Thank you, Chihiro!
Monday at 1:25 pm
Doesn’t sound to me as if she was really accepting her. She didn’t asked her daughter what clothe she would like to wear and she wants her to change.
You can get along just fine if different views. And just because something is labelled girly or manly doesn’t mean it is and it also it doesn’t mean manly = independent or girly = depended.
Monday at 1:57 pm
Salivia,
I think the situation is like this.
A father whose hobby is watching baseball games and loved playing baseball all the time in his youth is likely to play catch with his son. This mother is just expecting the same thing to her daughter. You know, it’s always good to share wonderful time with anybody who has something in common. And it’ll be more wonderful if the somebody was your son or daughter. That’s what the mother wants I think, and it’s nothing more than that.
The mother is not trying to force something to her daughter, and she probably thinks it’s ok to be girly (as you think, it’s nothing to do with dependent or independent). I think she will love her daughter no matter how girly the daughter is, needless to say. But, you know, the mother has a slight hope that she can one day have fun together for things she enjoyed very much in her youth.
Tuesday at 12:23 am
honestly.. this site ate this comment twice! third time is the charm right?
I understand what you say. And maybe it is because I never played catch or having a tea party with my parents (the equivalents of such activities included) I don understand the situation that good.
But I think that it is a bit more then a silent wish (can one say that in English?) but it is mixed with a layer of sadness, that might grow in the future and then burden the relationship.
You do not need to have the same interests to enjoy spending time together. You can do what one person like and next time what the other person likes.
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