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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mad props to all the dissenters from OP on this thread. We’ve come a long way from when I first started reading DCUM 15 years ago. Internalized misogyny and fear of traditionally feminine things is being rooted out at long last amongst educated parents and I am HERE FOR IT. [/quote]

It's definitely been a journey. This will sound silly but you know what really helped to bring this home for me when I was a young feminist? The movie Legally Blonde. That movie is actually really transgressive, or was when it came out, because a core theme of the movie was that femininity does not equal stupidity or vapidity. You can be ultra feminine AND smart AND competent. You can dress up as a princess on Halloween and then go kick butt at school and that's not weird.

But the anti-pink, anti-princess crowd is surprisingly robust. I'm in a moms group and there are a couple moms of daughters who say stuff like "Larla said she wanted a pink coat this year and I don't know where she gets these idea!" Fortunately, there are a few of us willing to speak up and say "...because she likes pink? What is wrong with that?" But it's still disappointing to hear people talk like this. As though a 4 yr old who loves dinosaurs and the color green is somehow doing better at life than one who loves princesses and pink. I mean really, folks, what the heck. These are children.[/quote]

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