Ingenues may be hyped and all that, but gamins have more fun.

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Ingenues love playing innocent and hard to get, but a gamin ain't 
afraid to tell you she wants sex.

Ingenues expect you to read their minds or detect ever-so-slight 
hints.  Gamins just come right out and say what they want.

Gamins got spunk.

Froo-froo ingenues are too girlie-girl.  Tomboy gamins make great 
buddies.

If you couldn't tell, I'm biased.  I married a gamin.

Hm.  My dictionary says that a gamin is a neglected and untrained city
boy.

I've met your wife.  If she's a boy, she's done an awfully good job
of disguising it.

Alternate definition, dude.  Gamin refers to the tomboyish girl.. I 
believe my source was "Color Me Beautiful" or something like that.

She's not a boy, but she is a tomboy; no disguising that.

Is it true that within every ingenue a gamin lurks?

Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 2nd ed: gamin, n. [Fr.] a 
street urchin or street Arab; a homeless or neglected child left to 
roam the streets.  Hmm, the alternate definition must be very recent.

resp:4  Not bloody likely.  We're talking yin and yang here; cut-and-
dried definitions.  There are girlie-girls and there are tomboys.
Of course, there's always the middle of the road..

The Powerpuff Girls

Bubbles- ingenue (well, even the name is a dead give away)
Blossom- neither, sort of in between
Buttercup- tomboy

How they are dressed has nothing to do with it.

Gamins must be getting the upper hand despite efforts to the contrary.

But deliberate gender segregation in the toy business is still 
obnoxious.

When I worked at Toys R Us, I can't count the number of times I helped 
customers who were shopping for girls in the boys' section.  Now, it 
wasn't the deliberately boy toys like cars and robots and such-- it was 
Toy Story characters that happened to be male (like Woody), Star Wars 
characters that were more comic relief (a C3P0 figure for a toddler 
girl), Cartoon Network characters, etc (except the confusing part was 
all Nickelodeon Rugrats characters were in the girl's aisle, no matter 
*what* the toy was).

I also remember telling my boss that the colors a "skater" remote 
control girl toy was in, well, no skater chick would be caught dead in 
that.  He said yeah, well, we have to set an example.

XD~~

Is this like the place where all geek losers hang out?

Tha's funked-up, pimpin' losers to you, boy.

Ya think? I don't think so :)

If I want yer opinion, I'll beat it outta ya.

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