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Title: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 10:13:11 AM
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 10:13:11 AM
I realized then that my daughter didn't quite know how to be herself, express herself, without worrying about how she would appear to others. It was as if our lives at that moment collided. I knew exactly where she was — stuck between her girly world, a world where people are looking and judging, a world represented so completely by this mirror by which her frilly dresses hang and in front of which she has spent hours primping and posing, and the real world of her mother, a world that lately is hardly simple, that is full of tears and trials, that makes you work for your triumphs.
http://www.salon.com/life/motherhood/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/03/21/my_daughter_the_girly_girl (http://www.salon.com/life/motherhood/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/03/21/my_daughter_the_girly_girl)
http://www.salon.com/life/motherhood/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/03/21/my_daughter_the_girly_girl (http://www.salon.com/life/motherhood/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/03/21/my_daughter_the_girly_girl)
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: Erica L. on March 22, 2010, 10:58:52 AM
Post by: Erica L. on March 22, 2010, 10:58:52 AM
Oh, to be a mother and struggle with the decisions of motherhood. While I envy her position, I don't envy the conflict that is inside her while dealing with this issue.
Side note- Love the website this story is found on!
Side note- Love the website this story is found on!
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: Julie Marie on March 22, 2010, 01:38:37 PM
Post by: Julie Marie on March 22, 2010, 01:38:37 PM
OMG! A person who drapes herself in pink! What's a mother to do? Quick! Call in the local feminist. Maybe we can buy her a truck. An olive drab t-shirt, jeans and combat boots might help too.
"Gloria Steinem, why has thou forsaken me?"
"Gloria Steinem, why has thou forsaken me?"
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 01:50:16 PM
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 01:50:16 PM
God I should try to find the article a week or so ago about how much this has become the deal - that everything for girls is now pink, and everything for boys is something other than pink. They had a picture of two rooms, one with girl stuff the other with boy stuff and a picture is better than a thousand words.
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: cynthialee on March 22, 2010, 01:52:48 PM
Post by: cynthialee on March 22, 2010, 01:52:48 PM
Just sounds like a hyper femme girl child.
(bet her mother flips out when she comes out as lesbian.......)
(bet her mother flips out when she comes out as lesbian.......)
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 02:03:51 PM
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 02:03:51 PM
Dykes on Bikes or Lipstick Lez? Though the last few Pride Parades they seem to be merging. Must be the evil effect of the BMWs.
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: juliekins on March 22, 2010, 07:13:03 PM
Post by: juliekins on March 22, 2010, 07:13:03 PM
Why limit it to natal girls?
Julie and I have a friend who's 12 year old son is firmly confident in her decision to grow to be the woman that she already knows she is. Isn't it nice that kids are getting the chance to grow into the people that they know themselves to be?
Julie and I have a friend who's 12 year old son is firmly confident in her decision to grow to be the woman that she already knows she is. Isn't it nice that kids are getting the chance to grow into the people that they know themselves to be?
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 07:20:49 PM
Post by: tekla on March 22, 2010, 07:20:49 PM
Not if its just a commercial decision about what one OUGHT to be.
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: Silver on March 22, 2010, 07:38:03 PM
Post by: Silver on March 22, 2010, 07:38:03 PM
Oh no! Obviously, there's something wrong with women who like being feminine. We must stop them now!
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: Jasmine.m on March 23, 2010, 07:50:59 AM
Post by: Jasmine.m on March 23, 2010, 07:50:59 AM
I think my mom had this same problem with me (the wanting to be a girly girl part)... :P
Title: Re: Help! My daughter's a girly girl
Post by: insanitylives on March 30, 2010, 05:04:10 PM
Post by: insanitylives on March 30, 2010, 05:04:10 PM
Quote from: cynthialee on March 22, 2010, 01:52:48 PMI can see that conversation
Just sounds like a hyper femme girl child.
(bet her mother flips out when she comes out as lesbian.......)
"But you didn't like me being all girly, what DO YOU WANT FROM ME!"