our parents divorced when my brothers and i were very young. just after preschool but before elementary. mom got primary custody, but we stayed with dad for every summer up until we were 18 or so. dad, being a bit of a recluse, and being rather well funded, lived in a different house every time we'd visit him.
this one summer, i think in grade 4 or so, before we had internet, super nintendo was still new, we lived in this two-level home with this other woman who at the time i assumed dad was friends with, and her daughter about our age. the place had a pool. one night we all headed down to our room to play nintendo after spending all day in the pool. we didn't have a bathroom down there, and we were young so we just took our clothes off to change into our jams in the communal room. i guess the woman's daughter thought this was fine so she started to do the same, to which one of my one brother responded, 'you can't take your clothes off with us, you're a girl.' this little chick, who i'm sure has not once been discriminated against in her entire 8 years of life, welled right up and became upset. she ran out of the room weeping and we figured that was the end of it. we all buckled down to play some megaman.
10 minutes later the woman whose living with us comes down, completely stark naked, and angry. says demands us turn around and look at her. it's not right for us, as young men, to treat women that way, and we should all be treated as equals, she explains. i'm sure she thought her speech captivated us 10-year-olds, as none of us said a word, but none of us could take our eyes off her giant, black bush and middle-aged tits. none of us had seen a naked woman before then and to this day that scene has been burned into my mind. all naked and stern, back-lit by the hallway sconce, waiting for a heart-felt response that will never come. the megaman title theme played in the background.
