"Run like a girl"

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a 20 yr old hipster wearing a "World's Best Grandpa" t-shirt. I thought it was hysterical. I'd assume a Reagan Bush shirt from '80 was supposed to be funny.

Let THEM worry about YOU. Why should YOU worry about THEM?

OP here again. The Reagan/Bush was supposed to be funny? I took it as a "true republican" not the farce that is currently running.

LOL it would be like wearing a hoover for president shirt.

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hey, Run Like a Girl pre-dated HRC--they've co-opted it. Clicking on OP's link, that shirt (bc of the graphics) is political and I agree with other posters not to bumper-sticker your kid.

However; if it didn't have the graphics, I'd put my kid in it. A PP put an ad on here, and I'm assuming it predates the campaign as well--the original intent, which was about a study that discovered when little girls were told to "run/throw like a girl" they acted powerfully, but older girls would run in a weak fashion. It was about counteracting the change in perception that happens at that age.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to tell you, but this isn't a reference to HER.

+1
It's about running for Congress.
Go for it, OP. Better than the usual "Cute" "Sweet", or "Crown me" shirts.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

A preschooler is not capable of having a meaningful opinion on political candidates. If all you're basing your opinion on is girl power than your daughter could theoretically be just as effusive about Trump if he was a woman. Or perhaps she would have happily campaigned for Sarah Palin? Of course she can be excited about a female president but turning a small child into a political billboard is just tacky sorry.

And I'm a female HRC voter who is excited about the impending first female President.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

A preschooler is not capable of having a meaningful opinion on political candidates. If all you're basing your opinion on is girl power than your daughter could theoretically be just as effusive about Trump if he was a woman. Or perhaps she would have happily campaigned for Sarah Palin? Of course she can be excited about a female president but turning a small child into a political billboard is just tacky sorry.

And I'm a female HRC voter who is excited about the impending first female President.

Huh! See, I think being judgy about a preschooler's clothes is tacky, so there's that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a dyed-in-the-wool democrat and I got my preschooler this tshirt: "Run like a girl".
https://www.etsy.com/listing/271505011/run-like-a-girl-infanttoddlerkids-t?ref=market
Now that I got it, I'm a little hesitant to put it on her for school. She goes to a catholic school in NoVA, and I saw a parent today w a "Reagan/Bush 1980" shirt on today. What do you think? Inappropriate for school?

I'd do it.

Why? How does a girl run?

First they join a political party.

Then they gather signatures to get their name on a ballot.

Same as a boy, so what's the point?

It's taking a purported insult "like a girl" and affirming it as a strength. It's awesome.

Insult? Really? I apparently missed that notion. Where I come from, girls can do just about everything better than boys, IF they want to.

everyone I know has heard the saying "he throws like a girl" and knows it is an insult.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

A preschooler is not capable of having a meaningful opinion on political candidates. If all you're basing your opinion on is girl power than your daughter could theoretically be just as effusive about Trump if he was a woman. Or perhaps she would have happily campaigned for Sarah Palin? Of course she can be excited about a female president but turning a small child into a political billboard is just tacky sorry.

And I'm a female HRC voter who is excited about the impending first female President.

Huh! See, I think being judgy about a preschooler's clothes is tacky, so there's that.

OP asked if people would judge her. Just answering the question!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

A preschooler is not capable of having a meaningful opinion on political candidates. If all you're basing your opinion on is girl power than your daughter could theoretically be just as effusive about Trump if he was a woman. Or perhaps she would have happily campaigned for Sarah Palin? Of course she can be excited about a female president but turning a small child into a political billboard is just tacky sorry.

And I'm a female HRC voter who is excited about the impending first female President.

Huh! See, I think being judgy about a preschooler's clothes is tacky, so there's that.

OP asked if people would judge her. Just answering the question!

Your answer included calling a kid's clothing tacky. That's not required in order to answer OP's question. You are free to say it, of course. And I'm free to think you're being tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not one to turn my small children into unknowing billboards for my personal political and social views, but you be you OP...

Who says it's unknowing?

The kid is a preschooler.

My preschooler is in on the "girl power" thing.

my 5 year old is the biggest hillary supporter in the house- I'm for bernie & dh wanted bloomberg to run & we have to watch what we say about hrc in front of her because she's soo freaking excited that the national portrait gallery will have a woman up there in the hall of presidents. We go there a lot /c w alive in chinatown and its an easy place to run around and open till 7. & she;s the one who noticed there were no 'girls'.

So yes preschoolers can very much know about girl power.

A preschooler is not capable of having a meaningful opinion on political candidates. If all you're basing your opinion on is girl power than your daughter could theoretically be just as effusive about Trump if he was a woman. Or perhaps she would have happily campaigned for Sarah Palin? Of course she can be excited about a female president but turning a small child into a political billboard is just tacky sorry.

And I'm a female HRC voter who is excited about the impending first female President.

Huh! See, I think being judgy about a preschooler's clothes is tacky, so there's that.

OP asked if people would judge her. Just answering the question!

Your answer included calling a kid's clothing tacky. That's not required in order to answer OP's question. You are free to say it, of course. And I'm free to think you're being tacky.

You sure are! But I didn't call kid's clothing tacky. I said that using your kid as a political billboard was tacky. Had this question not been framed as OP basically asking if she could put her kid in pro-hillary clothing when she saw a parent wearing an old bush t-shirt then maybe I'd react different. Maybe if she'd posted a picture of the t-shirt and said, 'is this too politically weighted? i'm just all about girl power but wondering if this would verge a little too much into election commentary' I would have said, no girl power!. I am saying that as OP describes the situation, I would think it was a little much/annoying/exploitative.

Tacky I guess is a weighted word on this board. How about, 'in bad taste'?

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isn't the real question: why the hell are you sending your daughter to that school?

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Anonymous wrote:isn't the real question: why the hell are you sending your daughter to that school?

She probably feels it's the best education for the money.

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Anonymous wrote:isn't the real question: why the hell are you sending your daughter to that school?

She probably feels it's the best education for the money.

How could it be a good education if the child is surrounded by people who don't support women running for office or who are offended by the notion that girls should aspire to leadership positions?!

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Anonymous wrote:Girls and boys run the same way if they're good at it.

BTW, ss anyone else bothered by the blatant gender discrimination at the Rio Olympics? They have separate events for men and women. Why not let men and women compete together in a track event or a swim event? Having a separate race "for the girls" seems so antiquated.

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Anonymous wrote:Girls and boys run the same way if they're good at it.

BTW, ss anyone else bothered by the blatant gender discrimination at the Rio Olympics? They have separate events for men and women. Why not let men and women compete together in a track event or a swim event? Having a separate race "for the girls" seems so antiquated.

Anyone? Why is this still allowed?