In her "Choose Your Character" essay about finding out Amanda was pregnant, she was riding her motorcycle around town thinking about being a mom herself:
http://the-magazine.org/14/choose-your-character
People have posted the family line-up before. He has one more sibling, a sister I think.
This is not the first time John has worn a very short skirt before sitting down on a stage. (He did it at the one where he was sitting next to the Asian guy and did all the snarl-tics.) No woman does this.
Totally agree about the normal women not sitting down with a miniskirt thing.
Re: the "riding around town / Wu as parent" piece.....boy, it just has that "shit that never happened" feel...this part for example:
"Idling at a red light, I see a woman waiting to cross. She has my figure and looks to be my age. The frazzled look of motherhood is about her: disheveled hair and perpetual distraction. She’s hunched over to hold the hands of two kids so beautiful that my heart gives an involuntary lurch — an instinct hardwired into my brain in ways I don’t understand.
It hits me hard, as if this is an alternate-reality version of myself crossing the street. A Brianna that had made drastically different choices. The woman notices me. “Look at the girl on the motorcycle!” she says to her children. Our eyes meet. I recognize my gray-blue shade in her eyes.
I was adopted, and I had planned to do the same. But recently I’ve changed my mind. I wonder for the billionth time if the right decision is to concentrate on my job.
I’m certain that if I had children, I would be failing at my job."
Yeah.
That happened.
Sure it did.
This is like Wu's tweet about learning more from blowing her parents' dough on the "animation studio" than she ever would have by finishing college. Wu has this continuing tendency to desperately re-cast her failures as "learning experiences" or veiled positives through the rose-tinted biker goggles of retrospect.
This bit is even weirder, as it essentially says: "If I had a real vagina, I would be a failure".
And
come on, you know the little girl didn't say that....
If she said anything, it was probably: "Mommy, why is that man twitching?" , "Mommy, I'm scared....why does that motorbike have eyelashes?" , "Mommy, why did that man's gums just give an involuntary lurch?" or even "Mommy, tell me again that the Kiddie Snatcher from Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang isn't real, okay?"