Posted on 04/24/2002 10:01:17 AM PDT by dvan
In case you’re still in the midst of your Earth Day festivities, you may have missed another boffo secular holyday. Hard to believe that this is the 10th anniversary of Take Our Daughters (TOD) to Work Day.
To the gals of the fevered brow, the tiresome hyphenated ideologues, the feminoid tyrants who grouse at any sign of male courtesy, this day is as important as Earth Day was – and probably still is – to the Unabomber. The TOD cadre wouldn’t think of hitting the kitchen and whipping us chauvinist pigs up a little snack, but they don’t mind cookin’ the books. For the truth that won’t go away is that TOD is based on a faulty premise.
According to the Ms. Foundation, which organizes the event, it’s vitally important for parents to make their daughters miss a school day in which they may actually learn something and instead drag them to their jobs. This is necessary because:
"In the early 1990s, research on girls detailed the radical and distressing shift that often occurs in the lives of girls in early adolescence. As adolescence begins, girls show a significant drop in self-esteem, report a lowered sense of self-worth, and describe intense feelings of insecurity about their own judgment and emotions."
But Professor Christina Hoff Summers, for one, effectively refuted the underlying "research" in her 1994 book, "Who Stole Feminism?" A major study that contends teenage girls experience a drop in self-confidence is the 1991 one commissioned by the American Association of University Women. The study wasn’t subjected to peer review and has little credibility among experts in child and adolescent development. Researcher Susan Harter flatly discounted the study as "poorly designed and psychometrically unsound." A University of Michigan psychologist and editor of the Handbook on Adolescent Psychology said, "When I saw the report I thought, ‘This is awful. I could prove it is awful, but it’s not worth my time.’"
The Ms. Foundation still uses bogus surveys to bolster its claims of how successful Take Our Daughters to Work Day is. The TOD web site maintains an unbelievable 96 percent of workplace program coordinators say that the program is beneficial for the employees who bring a girl. Even more breathtakingly, 100 percent of them say that most employees at their companies support the event.
Talk about incredible. Just imagine, you ask people if the job for which they’re being paid (or doing as a collateral duty because of their affinity for such feminist exercises) is worthwhile and they actually say YES. You quiz them on whether their coworkers value their TOD efforts and they actually say YES. Amazing.
The web site also has a listing of role models for girls. These include Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) who, we’re informed, is "the first out lesbian to serve in Congress." Silly me. I always thought first outs had something to do with baseball.
Another role model is the most successful Cheryl Mills, a vice president of the most successful Oxygen Media. You’ve heard of Oxygen. That’s the cable TV channel that Oprah Winfrey helped start, the one that would revolutionize programming for women. The good news is that nearly 40 million homes can now get Oxygen on their cable systems. The bad news is that on an average night only 52,000 households choose to tune to it. Test patterns get higher ratings than that.
Still, it’s got to be a step up for Cheryl from the days when she was fighting Clinton’s removal from office. Everyone knows how important women’s’ self-esteem was to him. Little wonder she’s designated as someone to emulate.
Once again this year, millions of well-intentioned Americans will mindlessly participate in Take Our Daughters to Work. Once again, their participation in this vapid, feel-good posturing will be translated as unassailable evidence that they endorse the Ms. Foundation, feminism, and a radical leftist agenda.
The gals of the fevered brow, the tiresome hyphenated ideologues, the feminoid tyrants who grouse at any sign of male courtesy would have it no other way. And their media accomplices will play right along.
This piece of trash idea stunk from day one. After two or three years of boys being included, this idea will drop like the albatros it is.
I didn't "mindlessly" take my daughter to work. She and I thought and talked about it.
If this guy really thinks that our day at work translated into unassailable evidence that we endorse the Ms. Foundation, feminism, and a radical leftist agenda, he is full of exretia. His translation skills are barely third grade.
Neither of us, none of those.
My daughter and I used that day to reinforce her conviction of never being a salary slave in a big corporation. Which helped her work for her Juris Doctorate and the Bar.
Lovely lady, she would also object to some mouth-foamer like this telling us what we think. He couldn't possibly know.
She'd be more vitriolic, in fewer words, then I if she read this. If she sees this guys knuckle-dragging, she'll laugh and tease me for reading what she calls "toilet graffiti".
But this "author" is welcome to his opinion......keeps those racks at the check-out stand full.
She obviously thought that servicing the Sink Emperor Himself was a great boost to female self-esteem.
It's time that these Neanderthals own up to their sexism.
When I did the above, TODTWD was immediately cancelled and the "committee" of feminist malcontents disbanded rather than allow me a seat. I work for one of the the biggest employers in my state - my idea caught on here. It will work for you too.
There's more to what goes on around here than pounding keyboards.
Yes, it took them a couple of years to get their act together, but my employer did the same thing, with participation limited by a lottery. Most people ignore it.
You said it. I wonder what it does to their all important "self-esteem".
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