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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Ha I was always a girly girl cheerleader and sorority girl etc., and am a scientist who had full scholarships. All of my similar friends are very successful in all kinds of traditional and non professions. You can, indeed, embrace fashion and all that and still be intelligent and accomplished. The idea that you could not is so wildly limited and offensive I can’t believe it’s hung on as long as it has. [/quote]

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