Old Lesbians(ok I relent-Experienced&Empowered Dykes)

[good2cats]

Hi I was reading the responses to the Young Lesbians thread and began to feel very old and somewhat creepy.It got me to wondering though,are there older members around?I myself will be 45 in August.Please tell me that I am not the only old fart around.Thanks,Karen

Edited by: good2cats at: 6/4/04 7:06 pm

[Tiggrscorpio]

Karen you are not the only one, though I think I prefer the terms mature lesbians or lesbians possessing great wisdom. I'll be 39 in November!

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"The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal." The Massachusetts Supreme Court upholding its ruling in favor of gay marriage

Edited by: Tiggrscorpio at: 5/18/04 11:04 pm

[Triscuit7]

Nah - Darcy and I both have creaky knees. She just turned 50 and I'm 46.



Ciao, Melissa

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Do something totally irrational and let the enemy think himself to death. (Pyanfar Chanur)

[Kieli]

What age would one consider old? Diana is 36 and I am 34...so have we hit Ancient Dyke status yet?

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[dekalog]

Yes please I'd like an answer as well......... and while we are at it are talking chronological age, or what age we act like?



I had to add that cause i just saw it and it looks so cute.

[concrete]

Yes, Kieli: you are really, really very old! I would call people of your age “dyke-no-saure” old

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. ...

[Kieli]

*GROAN* Oh bloody hell, concrete...now waitadamnedminute.....ain't you older than me?! Be careful, luv. I am not so old that you won't get a spanking

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[MaClayMagic]

Add me to the list of 'older' lesbians! 38 and counting and with a huge smattering of grey hair to boot. It's hereditary! Nothing to do with age! (Yeah, right I hear you cry!)

Wake up, Neo...

[BuffyTheSlayr]

Old??? Ack!! I am going to be 40 soon! Thank Goddess that my girlfriend is going to be 51!!





BuffyTheSlayr



"Does anyone mind if I pass out?

-Willow Rosenberg

[cattwoman98111]

lmao--ok I see the "young lesbian thread" and the "old lesbian thread".



Now where the hell is the "middle of the road lesbian thread"???





I don’t fit in to either category as I am 30.

Huh, I don’t know if that is bad or good. Oh well.







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scrappy performs her puppy power dance

[maudmac]

I share your pain, Jenn. Although...I am older than you. A whole year, too! Ha! Neener, neener, neener.



*cough* Which thread am I in again...?...oh, right. *cough*



Perhaps we need our own thread, where we can compare notes on our 7th grade flourescent shoelace fashion horrors and fight about who had the highest Galaga scores and debate about whether Kurt Cobain was murdered or not.

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everybody here is outta sight   /   they don't bark and they don't bite

[cattwoman98111]

I think a whole year is a BIG difference there in age Holley.



I am leaning toward Kurt being "assisted" in committing suicide. There is no fighting about the highest scores, that was not me you can have that one. But, I did have the coolest parachute pants in the whole world!



Holley, in the south did you as a kid, ever get together with friends on a Friday night and go to the roller rink? Or was that a northwestern thing only.



Man maybe I do fit into this thread. All this talk of childhood things is making me feel old.







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puppy power strikes again!

Edited by: cattwoman98111 at: 5/19/04 4:32 pm

[Jennpurr]

Quote:

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did you as a kid, ever get together with friends on a Friday night and go to the roller rink?

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I'll admit to doing that. You stay there for an hour and then you go home smelling like the, "rink."



Should I be embarrassed by admitting that?







Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"

[maudmac]

Oh yeah, we sure did go roller skating. Hell yeah! What a soap opera that was. Sooo much fun. Sooo much drama. Wanna know a secret? I got my first boy kiss at the skating rink. I was 13. (I had to wait 6 more years to get my first girl kiss. Much better. )



There was little to do in my town, so we were limited to the skating rink, the bowling alley, the movies, or doing Bad Things like drinking, smoking, and having sex. I was a good kid so there I went, round and round and round. Nice to be grown up and realize that Bad Things are Good Things...very good indeed.



Jenn, I think you should make a parachute pants thread for us so-called Gen X folks. Come on, you know you wanna.

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everybody here is outta sight   /   they don't bark and they don't bite

[Rosenberg]

No, Karen, you’re not the only one on this board who is “mature” although it sometimes might feel that way. Let’s just say that I’m over 45 and leave it at that. I like to agree with the person who first said that “age is just a state of mind.”

[Kieli]

Oh HELL yeah! My brother and I went to the skating rink every weekend (I really had no other life. He got all the chicks while I just got ignored!)...I always thought it was just a Philly thing.



I remember parachute pants, frienship bracelets, those cool make-your-own barrettes, Swatch watches (I had three on each wrist....we prep-school types had our little fashionista attitudes too, ya know ), Michael Jackson jackets, Miami Vice suspender pants and jacket (I actually looked relatively stylish in that get up), Video Rock on Friday nights, the day that MTV began, The HFS festival in MD (kinda of a Lolapalooza wannabe), mosh pits, skateboarding, rolling down your socks and hiking up your skirt....ah hell just the whole damn Catholic schoolgirl experience for me *wince*



Damn I miss being a baby dyke. As lonely as it was, I still had fun.

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[good2cats]

Hi,
Thanks for your responses.Perhaps Old Lesbians is a bit severe.Maybe Well Aged or Experienced would be more user friendly? Some say that you are only as old as feel so by that standard age is quite flexible,unfortunately because of arthritis I'm not .
I was just noticing the great number of teen-aged kittens out there and was feeling like a pervert hanging around the playground.It is nice to know that there are other older Willow and Tara fans.

[Jennpurr]

Found my first crush, first love... whatever you want to call her, at the skating rink. Ironic that it would be the girl, my best friend at time, that I always went there with.



*sigh* Those were the days.



Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"

[MadeinNZ]

I've tried really hard to ignore my membership to this thread. I can be "down" with the young ones. I wanna be a hip chick. Instead, I'm a chick with a sore hip. I can't fool myself any longer. "Hi, I'm Nicky and I'm an older lesbian". Somebody pass the hot cocoa.

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde

[Darcy]

Well, I just received my invitation to join AARP (the organization formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons - they changed to just AARP because almost half the members are working at least part-time). That would seem to be an official imprimatur of being old.



I'm a little concerned about the fact that they sent it to me within two weeks of my turning 50. It seems a little Big Brother-y.



But I'm proud of my gray hairs - I earned each and every one of those suckers, dammit!



So I'll pull up a chair next to Nicky and her hot chocolate (although I'm thinking more hot spiced cider, myself), at least until it's time for my nap.

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I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin! - Willow in "Superstar"

[Gatito Grande]

I just wanna put my vote in for "Experienced Lesbians" (as in Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced?" whom I am not---quite---old enough to remember, pre-mortem )



GG Traumatized (about age 10) by finding a Hellfire "Chick Tract" at the skating rink (now I just think they're campy fun ) Out

[MadeinNZ]

Quote:

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So I'll pull up a chair next to Nicky and her hot chocolate

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*Hands Darcy a hot chocolate and a blanket (don't want you to catch a chill)*

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde

Edited by: MadeinNZ at: 5/30/04 2:28 pm

[good2cats]

Too hot for cocoa.I prefer a nice iced tea while I sit in my rocker

[Patches]

I read over the posts in the gex-X thread and thought - yuppers I remember all that, and more ... um from university. As a blessed boomer who was too stupid to hop on the gravy train and actually finish my degree when there were still jobs available, I became an honourary Gen-Xer. (Sure, give us an education *then* tell us there's nothing we can do with it ...).



At 41 (does anyone else kinda cringe when they see their age written down - I always think, how the F**k did *that* happen), I gleefully choose hair colour from a bottle, don't so much spring out of bed in the morning as wish the mattress had a spring loaded eject button, and have discovered that 'snap, crackle and pop' have left the cereal industry and taken permanent residence in my joints. However, while I may have awoken one morning wondering when I became responsible, I will *never* grow up! Na-uhn, no way! I've spent 10 years with my gf, and in 3 weeks and two days (wha? who me? counting???) we'll be married, all legal and official like! Kathy is a definite dyed in the wool Gen-Xer at 36.



My only tribute to 'old age' is the fact that at 36 my gf still gets carded occassionally buying booze, and I know *that's* never going to happen to me again, and I have discovered the philosphy of (with appologies to Lord Byron), "live fast, die young and leave a good lookin' corpse" comes with quite the price tag if you leave the middle part out



Nice to know there's a collection of crones out here. Now, did someone say something about hot coco and rocking chairs???



Peace All

Patches

You know I've heard about people like me. But I never made the connection. They walk one road to set them free, And find they've gone the wrong direction. But there's no need for turning back 'cause all roads lead to where I stand. And I believe I'll walk them all No matter what I may have planned

[Triscuit7]

Cocoa and rockers, or iced tea and rockers. We have blankets for when it's cool and fans for when it's hot. See, I remember a lot of the 80s stuff, comes from having a niece and nephew of the appropriate age. My mom swears that if they'd been around when I was growing up, I'd have had "Pretty Little Ponies" and I still think she's wrong. They're PINK for goodness sake. I had plastic ponies and horses in l ovely natural colors, and Marguerite Henry's books (esp Album of Horses). The thing about being older is you get to see everything re-run. So now I'm selling "Pretty Ponies" books and the store next door has Care Bears. Go figure.



Ciao, Melissa

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Do something totally irrational and let the enemy think himself to death. (Pyanfar Chanur)

[good2cats]

Hey,I am not oblivious to the fads and products of the 1980's.Having had cousins, niece, and nephew needing gifts.I have scoured the stores in search of the proper Care Bear ,Cabbage Patch doll and other assorted must have items.It could just be my fading memory but I don't recall the same intense search for kids toys in the 1960's. Or it could be that I was just easy to please.I was happy with my Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound bowling pins and could spend hours with silly putty and modeling clay.Melissa,I also had a collection of horses some were made of plastic and some were ceramic,the odd thing is that I'm afraid of the real ones.My cousins had those.I do attempt to keep up with current music trends it becomes some what difficult for someone who is much more comfortable listening to Joan Baez.If I had a point then I must have forgotten it .The mind does wander.Well back to my rocker.

[Gatito Grande]

Heh, Patches: I'm a year older than you, and I was carded last month!



Really envy the "10 years w/ gf" however (oh, and congrats!)



GG Of course, next month would have been my 10 year wedding anniversary w/ the Rat B*stard ex-husband, but that doesn't count . . . Out



"Cocoa and rockers"? Try iced mochas and disco!

[EffieBlue]

Hehehe,



well I just staked my claim in the Gen X thread lol. I don't quite reckon I'm ready for the Old Dykes home yet.!!



I guess just to add to that, i'm for adding my vote to this being called The Experienced Lesbian thread. Or the "Bought the T shirt" thread





Edited to add.. A man called me sonny the other day in a shop... O k so I was standing there reading Kerrang magazine.. but still.... I have breasts!! I know, I've had them for years.



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Edited by: EffieBlue at: 6/4/04 4:55 pm

[tybee317]

Wow, I think I have tottered around the board and found my place in the old, dykes home! I am 40 something but my mind says 20 something. The other day I made myself a label for my Id card at work "dykeasaurus rex". I miss being the baby dyke too, although I was/am really on the femme side. I just miss being the baby and having older wealthy women chase after me. That was fun. Anyway, I remember the Cuban Missle Crisis - the nuns made us practice putting our heads on our desks in case of a nuclear attack.