Indeed!
bookmark
Please, there’ve been spoiled princesses for the past zillion years. What else is new....
I live in a small southern town. It’s ALWAYS been that way here. Mothers and daughters sometimes have matching haircuts.
Oof! Assuming that a big recession/depression is coming along that will last for several years, this kind of attitude in half the population is going to be painful.
ITA!!
Silly. It was jeans and T-shirts for me. For my 10th birthday my dad gave me a .22 rifle. So much more fun than a designer bag or a poodle.
LOL..This is news?
bm
Except for the word 'Princess' tattooed across her chest...
I know three local men (small business owners) who went to China and married Chinese women for wives. They say they can’t stand American women.
In the 1930’s the Moms coming out of the depression years of their childhoods wanted their daughters to be Shirley Temple.
I am old enough to remember all the memorabilia, tap dance lessons, and being forced to submit to “Tony Home permanents” to get a head of curley hair.
Nowdays we “princess Moms” have fewer kids and more money, but the same tendency to want to recapture the fantasies of our own childhoods thru our daughters. Unfortunately the slutty Gollywood culture takes "glamour" things way too far and some stupid vapid people indulge their children in it.
Don’t get me started on one of my favorite topics!
These are the little witches that started tailgaiting me about 10 years ago and who are now the worst drivers on the road (that honor used to go to teenage boys).
These are the little Miley Cyrus worshipers who dress like street walkers.
Look around you and tell me who are the civilized people in our society? The men and boys are. Used to be the females.
And the irony behind all of this pedestal-putting of the females in our society is that they are still being taught that their value lies in their looks, not in their characters. Same sh*t, different decade.
I think that every girl has been “Princess” at some point. The meaning isn’t the same for everyone, though. Some people think the princess title means you have to indulge every material whim.
I may have been “princess” to my Dad (and yes, that was one of the nicknames I had up till the day he died), but I was reminded regularly that 1) the sun did not rise and set on my ass, and 2) there is not a giant *sshole in the sky that sh*ts money.
Dad was all about balance. :-)
Soe let's make up our minds. Is there a recession or isn't there? If this exists to an extent worth talking about, where is the money coming from?
From a purely culinary aspect I could see myself being married to a Thai or Viet woman. But it’s much cheaper just to eat out when I feel an urge for that food. So be it.
There is a fine line between letting girls be girls, and letting them become self-important, high-maintenance and obnoxious.
There is a similar fine line to walk when raising boys — they need to be strong and self-assured, but not excessively aggressive or belligerent. You don’t want them to be weak or spineless ... and you don’t want them beating people up just because they can.
Honestly, I think the key is to ground their upbringing in faith. Christianity can teach girls to be girls without being obnoxious twits. And (when taught right) can teach boys to be boys without becoming bullies, or nancy-boys (though there is a strain of Christianity which seems to celebrate weakness in men).
I don’t have a problem with the princess thing specifically — it is the lack of grounding that is the problem. Children must be taught that there is something larger than themselves. Generally speaking, people seem to have a problem recognizing obnoxious behavior in themselves or their children.
SnakeDoc
My sister and I had little glitter heels and white fake fur stoles and we thought we were so hot. LOL
I think the thirty years of feminist-influenced school curricula and cultural programming has done more to produce the current generation of female narcissists than anything else. The whole “princess” thing is just another symptom of the “it’s all about the girls” culture. This is partly why the Islamic world is slowly ramping up to conquer the West. As defective and backward-looking as it is, one thing it has going for it is that it hasn’t been emasculated like the West. It retains the vitality and masculine energy required for conquest. Now they’re getting the financial and technical means to put it into effect. I’m afraid long term the feminized metros are no match for the retros, and when it’s all said and done the “princesses” are going to have a lot more to worry about than a pea under the mattress.