Well, that's a twist we didn't see coming, did we?
As long as Jeff became a woman, it didn't matter what the method was, right?
In a way, it almost feels like this was written by an 8 year old boy who is afraid to go into the beauty salon because if they can make his mom really pretty, they could tackle him and force him to have curly blond hair in pigtails, lots of makeup and gah! a short dress with shiny black mary janes and white tights! Silly, huh? Then again, on Facebook, I know a few people that think feminists ARE changing the world right now and that "real men" are a dying breed because an attack on masculinity! "How dare you call it toxic!"
Where the hell was I? Hopefully everyone won't get confused, but I tried a different way of changing her thinking from male to female .. through the use of transitory names and a lack of gendered pronouns from the middle of the text until the ending when Jennifer was completely female. I would like to think that everyone understood what I was doing, but we do have readers that use English as a second language so I can't fault them if they wondered who the hell all those other J-named girls were and what they were all doing at the Beauty Salon, as if they took clients based on alphabetical order!
Starting this week and into the next, I am going to try to start stockpiling some captions to post over the next 2 months. Around Memorial Day through to right after the 4th of July is going to be a busy time for myself and members of the family, so caption time and blogging time might be limited to pockets of privacy when I can find them. I might be able to cheat a bit by writing up these posts while at work, but I definitely cannot make captions while on the clock. I'm hoping most people won't notice any lag or delay in what I post, but I am offering fair warning that things may slow down a bit here until the middle of July, unfortunately as I really love posting snappy captions and getting many comments to answer.
And to everyone out there raising one or more children, Have a Happy Feminine Parent's Day! The best parents have the best traits of both mom and dad wrapped into one ball of love. And bless you to those who's mother's weren't as supportive as they could have been. To those with great mothers, cherish them will they are still here to enjoy your company! It's been more than 25 years now since I celebrated a Mother's Day with my mom, and would love to hear one more time, even now in an ironic way, "Cut your damn hair! It's past your shoulder blades. I'm going to bring you to the hair dressers and get it permed if you don't get it cut!"