when a girl wants to wear batman or spiderman dress ups and the boys won't let her... because she's a girl telling her there is no spidergirl
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Hmm...you can't be referring to my son since he was running around the house last night with his harem of spider girls (sans his spider queen of course...your daughter!)
A family counselor I heard speak last Spring said she believes that young girls today who get caught up in skinniness, fashion, popularity, pop culture and boys are, essentially, “underemployed.” Their brains, she said, need to be engaged by things larger than themselves: things like hobbies, sports, art, music or community service. If they’re not, there’s a vacuum, and all kinds of wretched stuff comes to fill their minds instead
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a girl should be able to wear and more importantly BE whatever she wants!!!!
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Have you seen all the articles about the ho-bag costumes for young girls? Here's one: http://www.newsweek.com/id/62474?GT1=10450
And then there's this from Judith Warner in NYT.
A family counselor I heard speak last Spring said she believes that young girls today who get caught up in skinniness, fashion, popularity, pop culture and boys are, essentially, “underemployed.” Their brains, she said, need to be engaged by things larger than themselves: things like hobbies, sports, art, music or community service. If they’re not, there’s a vacuum, and all kinds of wretched stuff comes to fill their minds instead ( ... )
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