MORE tangled roots: Linda Grant previously defended hairdressing against the charge that it is a “puerile, superficial art”. But John Ponsonby says this description is “a curious thing to write, as few think of hairdressing as a boyish activity. Yet puerile is derived from puer, Latin for ‘boy’.” Given that it was gender stereotyping that got our styling tongs warmed up in the first place, Feedback imagines that hairdressing might be more pedantically disparaged as puellile.

But in this variation on Superbad’s wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism.

Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.

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