Daughter exposed to misogyny last week. (party, teens, weight, support)
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I can understand the OP's reasoning, but I believe it to be a bit over-simplified and over-sensitized. Millions of people are raised outside the Gospel of Political Correctness, and most of them do learn to avoid offending without subscribing wholesale to what can be perceived as a very doctrinal and self-righteous agenda that labels everyone who doesn't completely subscribe to it as a misogynist.
It was Houston, right? OP might have said, "Ever heard of Gov. Ann Richards? She said it was OK for Texas girls to do anything boys do."
Yes, I'm from Houston. If I remember correctly...Ann won after a backlash against the other candidate for making a rape joke. It was a huge deal while I was in college.
Another older customer asked very loudly if the kit was for my daughter. He said, "that's for a girl?!"
I just looked at him and he went off on a rant about women being pilots, going into the military, etc...
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If you should run into him again tell him Chuck Yeager thought Pancho Barnes* was one of the best pilots he'd even seen. If he's anything but hot air and actually knows something about planes and pilots that will shut him up.
I like to look at those happenings as a chance to give someone some free education. (I'd make sure your daughter knew about her too. )
So,My daughter has avoided exposure to misogyny for ten whole years. We had an encounter with a stranger that bothered her and opened her eyes to the fact that some people discriminate against girls/women.
I know the probably 90-95% of guys are great and treat women with respect. The few that don't really make me sad.
Yikes. You overestimated by about 80% -- I say this as a man. I'm sorry she had to go through this but it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a teachable moment, one of those heartbreaking loss of innocence moments we all have as children that are tragic, but ultimately make us stronger adults. This is a great opportunity to have a learning moment with your daughter and explain to her that she can be anything she wants to be, and not to be deterred by men who are threatened by it along the way. That she should hold out for the type of man who accepts her and her success at whatever she does and isn't threatened by it.
You've sheltered her to TEN without her getting the idea that some people are silly/wrong/bad/lame/sad HATERS?
I guess I had an agenda from day one that my daughter could be anything she wanted to be. They were drilling Amelia Earhart, Sacagawea, and Eleanor Roosevelt into her head in pre-school. And I was making her watch the women's Olympic events at the same time.
Build a model train, plane, or automobile if that's your thing, child. Though I admit she's drawn to traditional "girly" things like dresses, jewelry, ponys and makeup I can only expose her to everything and see what sticks.
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