The death of feminism

I love the statement where the mother says "I don't want them to think that my saying 'no' means I don't love them"....

What the HELL is wrong with parents today? My mother said "no" to me about a billion times. I *might* have said "YOU DON'T LOVE ME!" on occasion, but I knew that wasn't true. I doubt very seriously my mother lost any sleep worrying about it. As she said many, many times, "I'm your mother. It's not an elected position and I'm not running for Miss Congeniality."

The scary moment came when my daughter said to me "If you don't let me (fill in the blank), I'm going to resent you!" and I opened my mouth and my mother's voice came out saying, "I'm your mother. It's not......" Wow, what a moment!
 
Dreadful indeed, but certainly a tiny fringe of immature women who never gave up their preoccupation with princesses.

I think feminism is alive and well and is perhaps the most successful social revolution in the history of modern culture.
 

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I think the idea of spas for little girls is "icky" to say the least. I reminds me of the beauty pageants for little girls, which I find disgusting (and potentially dangerous, a la Jon Benet Ramsey). I also think they teach little girls that their prime value is in their appearance, which is a very bad idea.
 
How early is too early to give these little girls a copy of Naomi Wolf's book "The Beauty Myth" because I reckon it is about the same age that little girls are starting to be brainwashed by the beauty industry.
 
I can't change a flat. That's why I have AAA.

I don't consider myself a feminist. I am independent. And I've never felt held back because I'm female. I have though because of what I look like.
 
That's one of the first things my dad taught me when I started driving...how to change a tire. That said, I vastly prefer to either say "Oh, honeeee.....it looks like I have a flat...." or call AAA. I sew the buttons on his shirts and iron his slacks....he changes my flats and checks under the hood. AAA...well....I send them a check once a year so that I don't have to sew on their buttons or iron their slacks.
 
:aargh: Hardly anyone ever changes a tyre. We change the wheel with the flat tyre for the spare wheel, which hopefully is fully inflated.

I'm now too old to change wheels, even if I wanted to. Hubby is too so both of us call the NRMA when we have a flat, which is almost never these days.
 
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darroll said:
Let the fems change their own flat tire.
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Yeah. Well. I'm 74. Change my own tire? Can do. Change my own oil? Can do. Perform other routine maintenance on my car and around home? Can do. If somebody comes along who'd volunteer to do it for me or it's just plain easier to hire it done, fine. If not, I can get 'er done.
 

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