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Oh good grief, I just read this piece and I am now absolutely exhausted, my eyes just glazed over and fighting a slight headache. Stop the ride, I want to get off!
The piece is called, “Help, My Daughter Got a Bunch of Princess Stuff for Christmas!”
Well that is just tragic. What I would suggest is that you project an incredible amount of parental guilt onto that kid, and be sure you are using your small child as a weapon and shield against a world gone mad. I mean, we have got to raise these young uns right, right?
How else can ever hope to rid the world of it’s great patriarchal gender biased, woman erasing norms and pornified rape culture? And you simply must do it yourself because obviously fathers, especially straight fathers, never take on any “emotional labor” themselves.
Ewww, especially “straight fathers,” I mean that’s just so heteronormative and icky poo.
So if I were you, I would make it quite clear to this child that she is a victim of her gender and will go right on being a victim. You need to instill these messages in them while they are still young enough to be totally unable to sense things like, my mother sure seems to be packing around a whole lot of needless bovine poo….
Whisper those sweet nothings in her ear like you accuse her barbies of doing, “come here, little girl… let go of your individuality, your power, your freedom. Join me in the glamour and popularity of gendered subordinate dehumanized servitude… everybody’s doing it… first one’s free….”
Listen to your mama kid, you too can find bitterness, that same place of existence, that “bleak dystopian future of internalized misogyny….”
I mean, a bit ironic but these messages really are just oozing misogyny, woman hate, and there’s not a man within miles. They hate every darn feminized thing about those plastic princesses, including the color pink, and they seem to believe that womanhood amounts to “gendered subordinate dehumanized servitude. “
Mama just gets worse and goes on to say, “And none of my strategies will work if family members are modeling that females should try to please the “male gaze.”
I don’t wish to be indelicate here, but talk about the law of unintended consequences! At some point biology is going to bloom in that child, and she is going to actually “desire the male gaze. ” You have just put that child at war with her own body, at war with her own femininity, at war with her own biology even. You have just made it shameful that any female ever, anywhere, for any reason, ever desire the male gaze.
Shame shall rule the day just as soon as she finds herself actually attracted to boys, also known as the little spawn of our “toxic misogyny of our hideously patriarchal culture”…. “and our our porn-addicted rape culture.”
Inflicting her with Star Wars posters and Jungian warrior archetypes will not prevent her femininity and desire for the male gaze from coming forth but it may well stiffle, suppress, repress, and shame and confuse her when it does. I mean, what kind of a creature is attracted to those, “vile porn addicted misogynistic beasts of the patriarchal rape culture?”
Mama says, “We must develop their critical feminist lens, so they can see through the lies and know that “femininity” is a prison of oppression and misery.”
That was enough to make me just wail in despair and throw up in my mouth a little bit. Femininity is a huge gift, a great joy, a celebration of life and life abundant. How truly awful it is to have your very being, a significant part of your very identity, equated with misery and a prison of oppression?!
Mama actually “teaches courses about Sex, Dating, Marriage, and Work in the Religion and Theological Studies Department at Merrimack College,” and “holds an M.Div. from the Boston University School of Theology.”
Well, aint that special.
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See, there's this thing called biology... 
Good grief! reading that garbage from TRELAWNEY GRENFELL-MUIR was painful to say the least
Honestly, she is the type of person that anti-feminists rail against, and rightly so
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Hahaha it’s exhausting trying to keep up with these folks. Something new to fret about around every corner with them. This area of “academic study” is a slippery slope of rabbit hole after rabbit hole in which they eventually just end up having to make stuff up to be upset about 🙈
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I wish I had never clicked that link. Some things can’t be un-read
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Too much book knowledge, not enough life wisdom.
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You cannot win whenever people are determined to be victims. Even words of kindness can be distorted. I’ve had my fill of everyone crying about how oppressed they are. Some of the most amazing people in American history overcame real (not perceived) oppression rather than crying about it and deserve our respect. They fought through persistent efforts to prove their abilities rather than whining about how unfair everything was.
These days, however, that strong mindset has given way to a victim mentality. It’s a terrible turn of events and I can only hope that someday, history will recognize this for what it is.
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It all boils down to parents are too lazy to talk to their children. In this feel-good society that we have found ourselves, we cringe at the thought of hurting someones feelings and (oh my!) offending someone or being offended. I tell you what, I was given girly stuff all the time as a kid: barbies, baby dolls, a pink room, frilly blankets, dresses, toy house cleaning sets. I had all the ‘wonderful domestic’ things as a little girl. So what? My mother and father both talked to me. They told me to read. They encouraged me to read banned books. When I asked for GI Joe figurines, it wasn’t “no, honey, you will grow up to be a lesbian” or “those are for boys, here, what about a nice dolly!” It was actually, “Okay, if that’s what you want, dear.” I had toy cars, video games, I played in the mud, I played basketball, and did things that other parents of daughters would shudder at. The difference between me and those other kids is that I was confident in my station in life and I was allowed to explore opinions outside of the traditional ones my parents were raised in. They did talk to me and let me know there were more than just one opinion about things and they warned me about the flack I would receive if I did something that was against popular opinion, but not harming anyone.
This is why I say to my kids, and others, if you see someone in a mixed relationship, or two men holding hands walking down the street, or that girl with her skirt a lot too short, or a homeless person, to evaluate if that is something worth getting upset for. Yes, those people are doing unconventional things and going against the grain, but are they forcing you to be that way? No. Why? Because you have the choice to keep going on about your day and not even give any of that a second thought. Who cares? Do those people who are not in possession of your same values paying your bills? Sure they offend your eyes but as a human with free will, just turn your head the other way and ignore it Alice!
I have a soap box about things like this and I am going to put it away now, because it causes all my neat stacks of soap boxes to fall over and I have to address them. But yea, that person who is upset about the whole Barbie thing, TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN! That is what it is going to take as parents to turn around the next generation that will come to run this country. Maybe if parents took the time to do that, then it would not be such a disaster, would it?
*Takes a breath and stops now. Have a great weekend!
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I’m going to refrain from a probable rock throwing but somebody for defending ‘straight fathers.’
I realize I am in the minority……. but who cares. And don’t even get me start on that Cortez woman (I’ll reserve the word lady for a more appropriate candidate. Lol )
Yeah yeah, I know we are to extend grace, but that woman makes my skin crawl and give me headaches, and I don’t get headaches. 😉
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LOL! Ah yes that Cortez woman, that poor child, I’m telling you. Had to put the mute button on to preserve my sanity.
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Then there is that other newcomer nit wit, the one who mouthed MF- regarding President- how any rational mind can applaud her is beyond me.
Welcome to the dark side of the earth, courtesy of the leftist mob.
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What can I say? The world has done a complete flip flop as women try to be men and men stoop to being women. Soon no one will know what gender the other person is. This woman needs to look at her own opinions and how they will flood her daughter with confusion and contempt. My granddaughter still plays with her Barbies and she’s 16. They grow up fast enough with out all this outside garbage.
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Ugh, I could barely get through this post without throwing my laptop against the wall. So, so so ridiculous all this war against everything pink and feminine. It’s serious stuff because as you say, all those girls being taught about the oppression of being female and liking things that little girls usually do like princesses and boys is going to have them awfully confused in years to come.
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Turns out the reason that little girls like princess stuff is because little girls like princesses. What a shocker!
Generally speaking little boys like “things” and little girls like “people” (or animals -“beings” that can be communicated with). And that’s what they play with.
And it turns out that interfering with kids natural play can harm normal child development.
If your daughter truly doesn’t like the princess stuff, take it back to the store and exchange it for trucks. Sheesh!
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