It is damned near impossible to turn on the tv, look at social media or eavesdrop at Starbucks without being subjected to someone screaming about feminism and raising strong independant women who don't need no man. You can't go into a little girl section at department stores and find just plain old fashioned cute clothes. Everything is emblazed with "Girl Power!" "Female and Fearless!" "Better than any boy!" Or, and this one is my pretend favourite, "Future Feminist" with the word future X'd out.
Why the actual eff are you doing this to your daughters? Why are you allowing your SONS to be made to feel like the second class citizens you are fighting for your daughters to not feel like?
Now, let me be clear: I am all for traditional feminism. You know, the shit our mothers and grandmothers fought for. Equal rights. Equal pay. Equal treatment. Equal opportunity. Rock on my sisters!
But c'mon. Our sons are being left behind. Our sons are now being made to feel like they can't act like gentlemen because it is now viewed as sexist and hateful. When a boy holds the door for a girl, no one thinks, "what nice manners!" Nope. They sneer and say how that little boy is oppressing that little girl and attempting to establish dominance over her so that she knows who's boss. That's bullshit.
Know what else is bullshit? Parading your daughters whose ages are still in the single digits, wearing the previously mentioned shirts, dragging them along on feminist marches and telling them to scream as loud as they can while holding the sign YOU made which supports whatever it is that's offending you that day so that the cameras will pan to THEM. Yeah. Stop that friggin' shit. Seriously.
I can not for the life of me think of a single good reason to raise my daughter to believe that she has to be a loud, obnoxious, overly offended little snot. I refuse to shove ridiculous ideas down her little throat and pound unrealistic expectations into her little head.
Do I think that she should be able to wear whatever she wants? Sure. More or less. As long as it is clean, fits her properly and does not violate school dress code. Or MY CODE. (no holes in jeans. No attention grabbing statements. No deep V necks. and if you think that plunging V necks aren't a thing in the LITTLE GIRLS department... you are wrong) But I will NOT teach my daughter that she can wear whatever all the other girls are wearing. Why?
A:I believe children should be dressed modestly.
B:If I wanted her to wear what everyone else is wearing I would send her to a school that requires uniforms.
C:Most of the things the other girls are wearing are OFFENSIVE.
I refuse to raise a little bully. "Better Than Any Boy!" Seriously? If any major retail store stocked a shirt that said "Better Than Any Girl!" ... well. Dear God. There would be riots in the streets.
I have been accused of raising my daughter to be a victim. Because I am raising her to be "a lady". Yep. You read that right. I am raising my daughter to be modest. To have good manners. To be respectful. To be kind. To be loving and supportive of the people in her life.
To be a good and decent human being.
Now, I know this will come as a shock to some of you, but you can be those things and not be a loud, obnoxious, snotty little social justice warrior. Just because a bandwagon comes rolling down the street does not mean you have to jump on it. And it certainly does not mean that you need to throw your daughters on it and your sons under it.
