[SauronOfMordor]

I'm not trying to muzzle her father. I'm trying to say women are smart enough to figure out what is "most important" to them...I call ANYONE on the carpet who believes intelligent adult women need to be told what to do and what is MOST important in their own lives.

In the context of the original posting, it was clear that the daughter in question was not yet an adult. I'm the father of three daughters (none adult yet). I'm going to be voicing my opinions to them on a number of subjects. It's one of the rights of fatherhood. They can listen or not.

It doesn't matter if they're sons or daughters, child or adult -- parents tell their kids their opinions, and always have. I'm in my late 40s and my mother still tells me what I should do

[Lorianne]

Oh sure, parents give unsolicited advice to their kids all the time. But neither parents nor feminists nor anyone else can live a person's life for them. Ultimately the person has to make the decision what is most important. And ultimately each person is going to make their own mistakes.

I just find it insulting to women for ANYONE to in effect say to women: _____ is most important to you. It presumes the woman can't think for herself. Feminists are just as guilty of this as others.