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[quote=Anonymous]I have always been a feminist. Attended a very progressive slac, never changed my name, despise Trump, believe in structural racism, *know* religion has done women and children more harm than good, etc. But the PP talking about the women’s march is absolutely correct and I wish people would take her perspective seriously and not dismiss her as some 1950s hausfrau.

Do not “activate” young girls before they are teens! Go to a protest and tell them about it but do not bring an eight year old onto an emotional battlefield! You are not teaching them to “use their voice”—you’re literally teaching them to parrot and internalize your voice—essentially disempowering them. You are teaching them to be angry and divisive before they are developmentally ready. And you’re turning them into accessories to your self image—exactly what men will do to them in a few years and what they must learn to resist.

We need to guide our girls on a path to their own self-actualization. To a state where they know themselves, what they believe and what they won’t compromise. This is hard enough without prematurely layering on a ton of guilt, fear and secondhand rage. [/quote]

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