Comments on: good girl http://www.caseymorgan.org/2009/12/good-girl/ whacking, bereavement, God, etc. Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cdm http://www.caseymorgan.org/2009/12/good-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-862 cdm Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:22:33 +0000 http://www.caseymorgan.org/?p=1430#comment-862 I love that The Bench infected you so long ago. Funny thing about this picture--it looks exactly like our Bench, at least as I can remember it. Bench: is that you?? I love that The Bench infected you so long ago. Funny thing about this picture–it looks exactly like our Bench, at least as I can remember it. Bench: is that you??

]]> By: Eliane http://www.caseymorgan.org/2009/12/good-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Eliane Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:06:04 +0000 http://www.caseymorgan.org/?p=1430#comment-851 Ah, a fellow Good Girl. People must think this is a good thing to be, but in reality, not really. You spend a childhood in fear of losing the approval and love of those close to you, even if, in reality, that would never happen. Being Nice and Good is the solution to this perceived problem and can leave us stuck on the Nice and Good train for a long time! As for the Bench, I read a book growing up by Noel Streatfeild called Gemma, where in her secondary school, naughty children who got sent to the headmaster had to sit on a massive chair outside his office till he was ready to see them, and everyone could see that they had misbehaved. Petrifying but hot! Ah, a fellow Good Girl. People must think this is a good thing to be, but in reality, not really. You spend a childhood in fear of losing the approval and love of those close to you, even if, in reality, that would never happen. Being Nice and Good is the solution to this perceived problem and can leave us stuck on the Nice and Good train for a long time!

As for the Bench, I read a book growing up by Noel Streatfeild called Gemma, where in her secondary school, naughty children who got sent to the headmaster had to sit on a massive chair outside his office till he was ready to see them, and everyone could see that they had misbehaved. Petrifying but hot!

]]> By: Haron http://www.caseymorgan.org/2009/12/good-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-850 Haron Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:11:05 +0000 http://www.caseymorgan.org/?p=1430#comment-850 You know, after the first time I read "The Benefit of the Doubt" nearly 10 years ago, The Bench has been completely lodged in my subconscious as just about the hottest and the scariest thing that could happen at school. I love that you wouldn't have just be sent to the office of somebody in authority, but specifically to The Bench, breathing power into an inanimate object. I wouldn't be surprised if I've unintentionally plagiarised it in a story at some point, as it's very much become an integral part of my fantasy landscape. Your school would be so pleased :) You know, after the first time I read “The Benefit of the Doubt” nearly 10 years ago, The Bench has been completely lodged in my subconscious as just about the hottest and the scariest thing that could happen at school. I love that you wouldn’t have just be sent to the office of somebody in authority, but specifically to The Bench, breathing power into an inanimate object. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve unintentionally plagiarised it in a story at some point, as it’s very much become an integral part of my fantasy landscape.
Your school would be so pleased :)

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