Random Musing

I haven't written on this blog since I got engaged...or shortly thereafter. However it works, I have a bone to pick over a certain phrase I have now seen twice on facebook. Girls are writing on boys' walls that they (and I quote) "miss (their) guts." I cannot wrap my mind around this phrase. First of all, how can anyone miss another person's guts. Guts is a slang term used to describe the gastrointestinal part of the body. Such a crude word for a crude idea. No one ever is exposed to someone's guts unless they happen to be a gastroenterologist. (If Dr. Fenton was to tell me he missed my guts, that would be understandable, since he has seen them up close and personal like.) Seriously though, how can a person miss someone's guts?
Secondly, it disturbs me no end that these are things stated by females to males. Whatever became of female refinement, dignity, decorum, honor? I could possibly ascribe the missing of a person's guts as something stated between two males...since men are built along a completely different schema than women. But women said it...two separate women from separate spheres of influence. It boggles my mind! What are they attempting to accomplish by such a statement? I cannot imagine that they are so completely unaware of what they write on facebook that such a thing would just slip from them onto a page to be read by the person, the person's friends (including myself), and still others. Or are they? Have we as women descended so low as to ignore the language we use? It could still be that these two women used the phrase (gasp!) on purpose. Why? Perhaps it was to appear more 'with it' or 'cool' like so many of their peers. (In my humble opinion, this assesment of 'coolness' with the usage of vulgar language is misplaced indeed.) It could also stem from a desire to be 'pals' with the young men with whom they are communicating. In this I can only say to the young women whose language caused this muse that such a level of friendship with young men is neither desireable or attractive. Being 'pals' with young men by descending to their level of communication only shows that they are not desireable as partners. Men adore women who behave like women. The friendship that lasts is the friendship that leads to matrimony and beyond. Woman should not then pursue friendship with the man who is married unless he is her husband.
Anywho, that is my musing on the very idea of telling a person that you miss their guts. Old fashioned morals for all. :D