Frothing at the mouth

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I watched a movie last week, a korean film called The Bow, and by golly, this movie pushed all my buttons. I was so worked up internally while watching this movie that my heart was pounding the entire time.

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I think it starts when we give our little girls barbie dolls and the little boys building toys.

No, really. I'm not kidding.

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I only wish it were that simple. The ex I referenced in this entry actually had a dress he wore to school until his mother stole it and destroyed it. He had no concrete gender role issues, he wore eyeliner, had no problem with doing things traditionally associated with being a woman's domain. However, he still felt like women's minds were somehow inherently inferior in processing.

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The issue I see is still the damn barbie doll effect on the rest of the female population. In school, being bright and creative and competent while not being into makeup and petty things like how much one had made a girl an outcast to her peers. This is true for much of society. So, with most women as far as I can tell, even if they are intelligent they often don't bloody act like it, which I suspect feeds into the experiences of your ex.

I have male friends trying to find women that are bright, creative, and competent and who continually fail miserably. Most of the girls I hang out with are "outcasts" of society, because they don't fit the correct mold of barbie-dom.

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I seriously doubt that barbie is the culprit, given the fact that this problem existed long before barbie appeared on the scene, and exists in societies in which barbie has not nor will ever become as iconic as in the states