guess who(’s coming to dinner)? August 15, 2006
Bassie, Dina and I are playing “Guess Who”, a simple guessing game where people are categorized by simple visual traits: glasses or not, hair color, gender, etc (incidentally, what a wonderful lesson in how to reduce someone into a few distinctive physical traits and then “choose” them based on their having or lacking a particular trait). It’s the third round, and Bassie asks:
“Does yours have dark skin?”
Me: No.
Bassie: Okay (starts to flip down all of the faces with dark skin and sings) Yay yay yay…I always wanted to put down the dark skins!
I laugh, and Bassie has no idea why this is funny to me. The power of context…
i don’t know what’s funnier, the title of this specific post or the fact that your daughter came up with that genius statement without learning it from her parents