Posted on 10/08/2011 8:46:01 AM PDT by Mandingo Conservative
Girls the world over often go through a "princess phase," enthralled with anything pink and pretty — most especially the Disney princesses.
When it happened to Peggy Orenstein's daughter Daisy, the contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine stepped back to examine the phenomenon. She found that the girlie-girl culture being marketed to little girls was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls' psychological, social and physical development.
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Might I have a few additional details on this book so I can look it up?
Or a lesbian step-daughter
It might be another lost cause, but maybe they are the ones most worth fighting for.
"Stand up and fight, or kneel down and beg, but don't just crouch there, sniveling and whining."
John Connor, GUNS magazine columnist
“Give me a full ballerina skirt and a hint of saloon and I’m on board.” haha The Devil Wears Prada.
Yes, she is! Like any well-brought-up young Southern lady, she is sweet, pretty, charming, and terrifyingly tough. And she is more conservative than Ann Coulter, bless her. Do not cross her. In a bad situation she has a mouth on her that can make a Marine drill sergeant back away in reverent horror. I could tell you stories...
I will see if I can find it and forward the information to you. I doubt that it is still in print.
Now that is a very good thought, and one we need to remember. I will email it to my daughter, who is busy conquering the multiverse this afternoon.
I’ve always been a girly girl and love pink today more than ever before at 45. Let’s see, film director, producer, writer, novelist, business owner, corporate director, operations manager, black belt in karate, dancer, marathon runner, loves to lift weights and cycle, loves and owns fine cars, singer, pianist, guitar player, can change the oil in my own car and shoot long guns and pistols . . . pretty in pink, loving Feathers & Fur, and being a girly girl didn’t stop me from thriving. ;-).
My granddaughter wants everything pink, cowboy boots, tshirts, even a pink rifle to shoot with her grandfather! However she is a blonde-blue-eyed princess. She’s only in first grade, leave the kids alone, quit psychoanalyzing them
Maybe she should have named her daughter Bobby Jo or something instead of Daisy.
Feminists push today’s amoral slut culture on girls and boys. Most of the leaders (the loud mouths) are lesbians who despise heterosexual families, men and women’s love and respect for men and children.
I don’t see why choices of recreation activity and clothing necessarily have anything to do with sexual interest. Limiting people to strict types is very boring and unrealistic. This is an aspect of the legitimate problem the author/subject nearly identified, which is the societal expectation that every female, practically from birth, will be actively seeking overtly sexual attention in the most unsubtle manner, as if there’s really nothing more to life.
Of course, I imagine that’s how some people view life, but I prefer to avoid such people.
All I know is that I like women to act like women and men to act like men. Seems to me it keeps things simpler. I tried to get her to clean out the chicken coop the other day and she said “icky”. Icky!
You don’t get to dress and behave as a boy and then turn into a a girl when it suits you. At least that’s what I told her.
I think the issue is not the pinkness, which is harmless in itself. My daughter grew up with everything pink, still has to have everything pink, and she is one tough cookie now. You should seeing that cute little thing behind the wheel of a huge black F-350 diesel dually, dragging a six-horse rig loaded with bloodstock.
The issue people are really concerned about is the early sexualization of little girls, with lipstick, heels, sexy dresses, panties, bikinis, padded bras, etc. This is simply sick and wrong. It’s morphed from playing dress-ups, the way I and other little girls did when we were kids—sneaking Mommy’s lipstick, or borrowing old clothes to play games—to perfume, string bikinis, manicures, pierced ears, and molester-bait outfits with sexual inuendos printed on them. The beauty pageants for little girls are horrifying.
If cleaning the chicken coop was necessary for the good of the household, she should do it as a family service. That has nothing to do with whether you feel she’s effectively presenting herself as a sex object.
Why should your personal tastes in women’s dress and deportment necessarily be a guide for your stepdaughter? Woudn’t it be best if you found your wife sexually appealing and her daughter’s appearance a matter of indifference?
That's brilliant.
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