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

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.

[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!!