Pretty Insulting

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I feel kinda dumb—I didn’t realize it was indeed an insult for us ‘ettes to be called “pretty girls”. Contrary to what I’da thought, evidently it means a female with low self esteem. Low. So I reckon it was meant to say, we’re just pathetic if we want to blog on a site where we get some attention, sometimes positive attention. (Did the rest of you know what she meant?)

Like, that’s the best we can do, we’ve got nothing else going for us. (I hope the editors of our state bar association magazine and the lawyers who write me about my articles never find that out about me 😱.)

Should I even post this? I’m the one always telling us all here to just…make our own fun, who gives a phuque about les autRes. (And as I’ve said, I’m promiscuous: I love ‘em both, even the one that jilted…

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