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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Exactly and a lot of this prattling nonsense would just take care of itself if boys were allowed to be boys.

Some of my better friends are guys who I had a little fist to cuffs with.

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CindyArizona's avatar

That worked for lots of us girls, also. Pick the biggest mean girl and knock the crap out of her. Of course, it helped that I was almost six feet tall by the time I was 13 years old. Not too many of the girls would risk it but I had to put a few boys in their place.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Ha. I could've benefited from a friend like you.

If not, I might have been scared of you. I was a late bloomer. Ended up at 6 foot , but I was 5'4" entering junior year of high school. Grew 6 inches in a year and then another 2 freshman/sophomore in college.

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CindyArizona's avatar

LOL, I had a lot of boy friends who, being much shorter than me, depended on me to take up for them until they had their growth spurts in high school! They then took over the role of protector. Interestingly, several of us, me included, became police officers and firefighters as adults. Still protecting the underdogs. I’ve been retired now since 2007 and boy has the profession changed. Sadly.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Well thank you for your service; both professionally and in defense of the once puny guys!

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Porge's avatar

Yup,that's how it usually works out! Same here Ryan

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