<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776857789309940211.post4252259646678338120..comments</id><updated>2009-07-29T22:58:42.830-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Sweet Uncertainty: Piercing the Double Standards</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bethbalmanno.com/feeds/4252259646678338120/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8776857789309940211/4252259646678338120/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bethbalmanno.com/2009/07/piercing-double-standards.html'/><author><name>Beth Balmanno</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07922367131603730998</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776857789309940211.post-4629545550031613098</id><published>2009-07-29T22:58:42.830-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T22:58:42.830-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oddly enough, a similar conversation took place he...</title><content type='html'>Oddly enough, a similar conversation took place here a couple weeks ago. My six year old has asked me numerous times to get his ears pierced. And it was just seconds before I caught myself asking the same question (in my mind) &amp;quot;Wait a second...if he was a girl, would I have even hesitated?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, it turned out much like your situation. I said &amp;quot;Let&amp;#39;s go,&amp;quot; and he said &amp;quot;Um...hold on...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Double standards. Ick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you have a lovely way of re-telling the event. :)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8776857789309940211/4252259646678338120/comments/default/4629545550031613098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8776857789309940211/4252259646678338120/comments/default/4629545550031613098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bethbalmanno.com/2009/07/piercing-double-standards.html?showComment=1248926322830#c4629545550031613098' title=''/><author><name>MamaTea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04955555538158746355</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.bethbalmanno.com/2009/07/piercing-double-standards.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776857789309940211.post-4252259646678338120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8776857789309940211/posts/default/4252259646678338120' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>