Cute Little Bastards

The stereotype is that girls hate bugs. Shannon certainly falls into this category.

Ew she says.

Shan routinely asks me to kill any bug who has had the misfortune to slither, crawl, or scamper in to our humble home. Lately, Julia has taken to decapitating bugs that she finds in the house while sweetly proclaiming “I ripped his head off.” Now, when I kill a bug, I do not take the time to rip their head off. I stomp it or otherwise kill it with a quick blow from a handy implement of bug death like a magazine or book. I don’t touch them because I don’t want bug guts on me. I have no desire to spend any more time either killing a bug or dealing with the carnage. If I encounter bugs out in the world I let them be and I encourage my kids to so the same. Julia doesn’t seem to enjoy killing bugs but she definitely isn’t the slightest bit squeamish about dispatching them. Clearly, she gets that it’s a job that needs doing. She’d make a good farm girl and daddy is proud of her for not acting like such a fucking girl! If nothing else, Julia has caused me to reframe my patronizing son insult from “you’re acting like such a fucking girl!” to “you’re acting like such a fucking boy!”.