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pywacket ([personal profile] pywacket) wrote2005-05-25 10:09 am
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wee feminist

I was getting the Bean some new PJs since she's shot up, oh another 4 feet from last year or something.

Pretty purple pair, but it says "The princess waited in the enchanted forest for her prince to come."

And I thought, "screw that, oh no she won't, she'll move to San Francisco or New York and go to college."

Needless to say I didn't buy the pjs.

Why do we start giving girls these messages so early? Why do we put these ideas in their heads EVER.
That's just deeply wrong.

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[identity profile] jetgrrl01.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for you! I always buy gifts of puzzles and science/math/spatial stuff for my friends' daughters to try and balance out that fantasy world thing. :)

[identity profile] eunice-branca.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Go you for not buying those! I refuse to buy that stuff for my niece also. I think I drive my mom crazy because when we're talking to my niece my mom brings up niece getting married, I tell niece that she doesn't have to get married. She can take care of herself and doesn't need a man for that. Although, sometimes I think my mom starts in on that just to pull my leg because I'm "her little feminist". *laugh*

[identity profile] eac.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for you, indeed. It's bad when the messages leap directly out of books and attach themselves to clothes, for god's sake.

[identity profile] pink-grrl.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally agree. And its so freaking hard to get those messages out once they're there! OOH! CUTE picture!!

[identity profile] tomnielsen.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you consider buying her boy PJ's?

[identity profile] gen9.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What about Dora the Explorer pjs?

[identity profile] archanglrobriel.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm assuming that you've already got "the PaperBag Princess"? I loved that book and so does Ree. The princess in that book not only saves the prince, but tells him where he can stick it when he starts critiquing her choices in grooming and couture.
LOVE that book.

[identity profile] ilen.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh.

Despite having inundated Fiona with alternatives to the traditional fairy tale, she LOVES the whole princess being rescued scenario (Marion is more into being a monster who eats people at the moment, go figure). I think some of that is programmed in... or maybe it's from school, but it amounts to the same thing.

keep fighting the good fight!!

[identity profile] thistles.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
she looks like she can kick some major ass! (and also she's cute)
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