Boy Talk

I've been getting behind, an understatement. Wanting to not get out of order in my stories, but sometimes not "having the time" to write, I've stopped writing in order to get everything in the right time sequence. Now that's just foolish.
The wave of stories piles up and I'm not sure where to start. The debate over the last few days has been: when do I write, and what do I write about? Should I try to describe how strange I felt walking into the fourth grade class just moments before they said the pledge of allegience? How I stood with my hand on my heart in direct contradiction to what I believe just because these children look up to me, something that I have refused to do in almost ten years. Should I instead try to give a play by play of the conversation between myself and the substitute teacher?
She: Well isn't Philosophy a self-perpetuating degree if the only job you can directly receive from the degree is to teach Philosophy?
Me (as I wish I had been): Well isn't teaching a self-perpetuating degree? And what about criminal justice, isn't that a self-serving degree that rewards not thinking but a hoping for violence in order to pay the mortgage? But who really cares about Philosophy, right?

Forget that. I have no need to transcribe the past. Instead, let's talk about boy-conversation.

Boy conversation isn't literally conversations that boys take part in, honestly girls can have the same conversations. They start from an extreme passion, almost political, from one side of the line in the sand, intellectual but age-less. They require a few things the extreme passion being the first, and maybe you don't even know you have this passion until the question begins the conversation. For example: Which is the superior creature- a zombie, a vampire, or a werewolf? Do you feel it? The urge or the pulling from one of these words? Chances are you are currently formulating your side of the argument for a boy conversation. If you don't, then you are missing the other prerequisite for these highly intense discussions, the knowledge of these creatures, if that's what my words describe, creatures, the pros and cons of all, an image in the mind, an almost love for them, or even just the one that you know most about. Chances are you will say the strongest is the one you like the most, which in many cases is why we like one thing over another.
(I could move with this line of thought to describe why I believe Republicans vote for a Republican candidate... but that would be sacraficing something much more fun.)

It's facinating standing on the outside of these conversations as the boy, or well-educated female, argues fervently how if only Gambit could grab hold of Wolverine's adamantium exoskeleton, he could unleash his radioactive potential killing the almost unkillable X-man. But only if he could get his hands on them, which is unlikely because of Wolverine's inherently cat-like reflexes. It isn't that unlikely though seeing as how Gambit's stealth and agility matches if not surpasses Wolverines. But if he got close enough, it wouldn't take much for Wolverine to kill Gambit, who doesn't have regenerating powers etc. etc.

A boy will never change his position, because the boy is always right in his own way of thinking. The argument goes on until there are no more words, and time passes faster as they fight back and forth, not because Gambit would ever fight Wolverine, or because one elemental force is surely greater than the next (although one is), or because one presidential candidate is really better than the next (although one is), but because the fight is intense and almost fun.

These fights are immature, yes, which is why "boy-conversation" rightly comes from the lips of a responsible girl who accomplishes her job in the face of immaturity. It is my belief that there is no such thing as a girl-conversation, because you really wouldn't fight about which lipstick color conquers the next (or would you)? If you try talking about which carebear is the best, boys can even infultrate this conversation because who doesn't love carebears in some small way, but there are some things that girls just don't want to be involved in, and why would they? Super heroes and monsters aren't real and aren't worth fighting about, or are they?

Yes girls, you can join a boy-conversation if you'd like, it'll do to help educate your refusing sisters, the ones who say "Boys smell." I wonder if boys smelling is such a bad thing...