princesspeach wrote:



Slightly OT, but has anyone else here seen "A Christmas Story"? Probably my all-time fave Christmas movie; it dances merrily on the grave of "It's A Wonderful Life", IMO! Anyway, this thread makes me think of how the aunt of "Ralphie", the film's 9-year-old protagonist, sends him a fuzzy, pink bunny suit for Christmas, complete with ears and feet, that is totally inappropriate for a boy his age. Ralphie makes it abundantly clear that he would rather stick cockroaches up his nose than wear it, but his mother orders him to "march" upstairs and put it on because "Aunt Susie always makes you such beautiful things and I won't have you disrespect her like that" or some such nonsense. Then when he slinks miserably down the stairs in it, his mom coos and fusses on about how "sweet" and "adorable" he looks. The mother's intentions are the very best, but the poor kid is utterly humiliated. The scene is funny, not only because he looks hilarious, but because we understand, and relate to, his resentment and his powerlessness in the face of his mother's cluelessness and the fact that ultimately, what mom says...goes.






He was also much older than Damien, wearing something that was implied it was meant for a much younger child. Everybody has pictures that they hate from when they were a kid, based on the pictures in the first post on the thread she obviously isnt trying to make him look like a girl because he looks nothing like a girl in either of those pics. Its one pic that no one is even talking about anymore I doubt in 20 years when he is rolling in his trust fund that he will care about one picture eons ago that he probably wont even remember having taken. I cant imagine there is a parent in the world who has 100% of the time let their kid wear whatever clothing they wanted that made the kid 100% happy, or hasnt put the kid into something that they hated because they wanted the kid to wear it for some reason.





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