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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]

This. Legally Blond is fantastic.

I'll also note that, while I'm not a huge Disney fan, the princesses these little girls are into nowadays are pretty great. My 4 year old wants to be Elsa when she grows up so she can be powerful AND wear fancy dresses. Anna is brave and saves her sister. Moana is fantastic. These princesses are not looking to men to save them and they are charting their own courses, and that's what I want my daughter AND my son to learn. BTW, I'm wearing all pink today and I work in finance - it's just a pretty color and we all deserve pretty colors in our lives.  [/quote]

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