I am teaching my son an important life lesson

[Ellen Forradalom]

By letting him see what happens when you give a woman a little blue box


He is giving a little charm to his grandmother for the holidays. Nice safe way to start learning how to treat a lady right.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Do you have any single brothers?

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. I do

But he is muy weird. Trust me.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. weird is good.

:hubbahubba:

:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

2. All boys need that lesson...

A Tiffany box would make me a happy girl indeed :D

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. It's my job to turn my son into a gentleman.

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Show him Breakfast at Tiffany's

:D

[qwertyMike]

12. The one didn't marry? Or divorced?

Leave him alone -and pray - He'll find his own way

[Breeze54]

3. Did he pick it out and pay for it?

:shrug:

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. I paid

He's still just a kid.

[Breeze54]

14. Then what is the lesson he's learning?

:shrug:

I'm not following....

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. That it can be fun

to give a tasteful little gift.

[eyesroll]

4. I thought you were talking about Tampax.

Yours is better. (I'm not a jewelery person, but still. Yours is better.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. That's an excellent life lesson....

My one and only Tiffany blue box in my life came from my company earlier this year, in celebration of my 10th anniversary with the company.

I chose a pair of beautiful earrings.

And I still have the box. And the equally cool pouch the earrings came in.

[Kat45]

20. I also have my only Tiffany box from working 10 years for a company.

I chose a nice silver chain. It's beautiful, and I also kept the box and pouch. :-)

[Solon]

10. That's how I was raised...

I learned to put ladies on a pedestal, or else you'll get your ass kicked, like my Dad. OK, not LITERALLY, but figuratively. :)

[Deja Q]

13. Adding to the other crude jokes, this isn't something like NAWBLA?

North American Woman/Boy Love Association (I've heard there are chapters in every local high school...)

[madeline_con]

17. I thought they met in the middle schools nowdays. n/t

[noamnety]

15. oooh, I don't like this lesson.

It seems to be all about corporate branding and materialism. I don't like seeing that intermingled with "how to treat a lady right."

It's making me cringe here, and gosh you are one of the last people I'd expect to post this.

[otherlander]

16. People like shiny things.

Even liberal people.
And sometimes, even feminist people like shiny things.

[noamnety]

18. It wasn't the jewelry that got me.

it was the focus on the branding, the "blue box" - as if the corporate logo had surpassed the value/meaning of the gift itself.

[some guy]

21. I don't know what the lesson is either

but I'm leaning in your direction.

I wasn't familiar with the "little blue box" image in the original post, so I had to read other posts to figure out it was a Tiffany thing.

Maybe wew're missing something... :shrug:

I saw this esay on Alternet, but hadn't read it. It seems possibly appropriate in this thread, though not exactly in the grandmother-grandchild relationship aspect of the OP.

"This Christmas, You Can Buy Her Affection"


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/71127/

<snip>
These ads go far beyond just saying, "Hey, it's fun to spoil someone you love on occasion," and straight into making rather fucked up insinuations about how marriage and heterosexual relationships are transactional--her love and sex for your baubles. That women give love because they love and have sex because they desire doesn't enter the equation. There was one ad awhile back that was pretty close to explicit on this--a guy runs through the streets declaring he loves a woman. She's angry with him for his romantic and inexpensive gesture. He presents a diamond. Now she likes him again. Women's affections are a commodity, says the ad, not a normal human expression.
<snip>

[RadiationTherapy]

22. Glad you said it -

I am rather new here.

Standard deconstruction..."treat a lady right"? what's a lady? what's right? blahblahblah.

See what happens when...meh. I don't care.

[Ellen Forradalom]

26. Relax

There's a little humor behind everything I do.

I don't take it too seriously, but on the other hand learning that it's nice to give a little tasteful gift is not such a bad thing now is it? Notice I didn't say he gave her a $10,000 necklace, just a tiny little charm with his first initial on it.

[Scooter24]

19. I love Tiffany's and agree

they manufacture some gorgeous things.

I hope she enjoys her gift :)

[Evoman]

23. Lol...that is sooooo not my approach.

I was never taught that particular lesson and I do a lot better than my buddies who have.

[DS1]

24. blue box, black eye

same difference


:hide:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Oh, THAT blue box

It starts with buying her the Tiffany blue box.

Then proceeds to emergency road trips to buy her the Tampax blue box.

It's a slippery slope.

:rofl:

:hi: