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Oh, the feminist movement wasn't entirely stupid. Look at all the beautiful thoughtful FReepers gals here who have had hardworking jobs.

I had dolls and teasets, but I can rebuild an engine----or if I can't I know what's wrong with it.

I think that's better than leaping onto the kitchen table ala my mother freaking out about a danged MOUSE. Sheesh! Set a trap and throw him in the trash after you plug in the coffee tomorrow.

>>>>Oh, the feminist movement wasn't entirely stupid. Look at all the beautiful thoughtful FReepers gals here who have had hardworking jobs.

I had dolls and teasets, but I can rebuild an engine----or if I can't I know what's wrong with it.

I think that's better than leaping onto the kitchen table ala my mother freaking out about a danged MOUSE. Sheesh! Set a trap and throw him in the trash after you plug in the coffee tomorrow.<<<<<

I agree, I don't care for silly women. I am a practical gal and will do what is necessary but I will be honest, I would rather let the guys do the mechanical work, but I do know how to be the gopher and don't mind helping :)

Oh I LOVE your reply!!! I jsut love it. I too had dolls, teasets, pots and pans...mini ironing boards, little brooms and all that. Ruffles, lace, hair ribbons, etc. I can remember my mother telling me to be polite and to remember to say please and thank you like a little lady. I LOVE those memories and lessons from my dear mother. She was also TOUGH when she needed to be and would protect us all with her life if it came to that and woe be to the person that stepped between us and her.

My dad was very loving and kind and good to us. He was never mean or bullying. Yet, he was the one who was there for all of us and who would have then taken HIS place and stood between my mother and any person who would intend us harm. Woe be to that person again.

I TOO can kill bugs and even felt sad when our dog unearthed a mouse and her babies instead of running and screaming like a banchee.

Boys will and SHOULD be boys cause they are the men who are there later on when women DO scream like banchees.
Boys are the men who are there later when women really need them.
Boys are the men who will be there to hold a door for a woman.
Boys are the future men who will help a woman in distress and hold and comfort her when she is upset.
Boys are the future men who will beam with pride at the birth of their children.
I could go on and on as I know you could too.

These feminists movements are one big joke. Just a bitter group wanting to force their agenda on everyone. Maybe they don't have kind gentle loving men in their liveswho are also tough, masculine and brave as well. I don't know what their problem is that they have such a hard time accepting boys/men as they were created. I'll take a rough and tumble little boy anytime as this is what prepares him for his future as the protector of his family. And...I'll take a polite little young lady who also knows how to nurture, love and raise her children the way they should be raised.

So, Parents: Raise your sons to be men and your daughters to be ladies. You won't be sorry and neither will they.

I seldom reply on threads like these, but always read them with the same fascination some folks have with rubber-necking highway accidents, due to the rigid stereotypes that so often get hyped. It's good to see a thread with common sense being posted early on. Kids should be let to do what they naturally do, and not have agendas from either side foisted on them.

As a very young girl, I did not like to play with dolls and tea sets. I don't even remember this, but the first time I received a baby doll from a relative at Christmas, I tossed it in anger at the offending relative, with remarkable accuracy, having hoped for something more "outdoorsy". When I learned from adults that the purpose of all that "fru-fru stuff" was to prepare girls for eventual motherhood, I relaxed, because I knew even then that motherhood wasn't to be for me. Thank God my immediate family didn't "push it". They were somewhat ahead of their time (and the "feminist movement") in that respect.

Regarding "spatial abilities" being unique to boys, well that's rubbish too, of course. As is the closely related myth of all "tomboy" girls being dykes-in-training. My (very male) husband has been giving me tools for all of our 18 years of marriage. I still occasionally have to show him which way a wrench gets turned, since he grew up with landlords who always had those things taken care of, but he is learning. I need him to take care of the financial details of our life, as math is not, and has never been, my forte. Our unique abilities complement each other. There is a pot for every lid and a lid for every pot, as they say.