Me too--my mother even had my legs x-rayed at 16 months because I wasn't
walking (yet). What did I need with walking when I'd been ordering everyone
around in perfectly clear verbal terms since the age of 10 months?
Guess I'm a TUFP!
Candice
on 3/31/01 11:31 AM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> I was a late walker and early talker, which figures.
>
> Wendy Cope has a poem called TUMPS (acronym for Totally Useless Male Poets)
> in which she claims male poets can't drive, get lost easily but can always
> find their way to the bar. I fit the stereotype perfectly. So does her
> partner, Lachlan Mackinnon.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 31 March 2001 04:02
> Subject: Re: STIMULUS: THE READER
>
>
>> As a fellow walker and so-called non-driver (or rather, internal infernal
>> engine, I like to think!), I salute you! (Along with your witty
> "pedocentric
>> myth"--thanks.)
>>
>> Candice
>>
>> P.S. This discussion reminds about all the lore to do with babies who
>> crawl/not, walk early/late (who's to say?), and the attendant predictions
> of
>> their intellectual powers on that basis, which I gather have no scientific
>> basis at all(?).
>>
>>
>>
>> on 3/30/01 3:20 PM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, and I've even heard it suggested that walking comes before driving.
>>> Whereas it should be perfectly obvious that all the elements of driving
> are
>>> present in the act of so-called walking. To suggest otherwise is blatant
>>> Western technocratic imperialism aimed at making so-called non-drivers
> feel
>>> inferior about their supposed lack of a skill which they in fact already
>>> posessed. In particular, the romantic nonsense about walking being
> healthy
>>> and invigorating etc etc is a pedocentric myth. There is no need for
>>> L-plates. We have always already passed the test.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>> (non-driver - so-called)
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