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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am 50+ and a feminist from the old days.  I can tell you are young, because one of the problems of the younger generation of feminists is demanding that the world meet your needs when you have never articulated what thy are.  I was outraged by the Aziz Ansari article in Babe.  It’s author places women in an infantile position where they bear no responsibility to articulate their desires.  Instead, men are supposed to mindread and figure it out for them.

In your shoes, faced with the same situation, I would have wondered how my daughter learned to accept the leadership of boys or sit through someone calling music bad because the musicians “are a bunch of girls.”

What have you taught your daughter about assertiveness and standing up to sexism?  What hav you taught her about “handling” situations like this?  You claim your daughter should not be expected to handle situations like this on her own, but my 9-year old DD would have politely eviscerated any boys who said things like that to her.

It seems to me that if you care about making sure your daughter is not a victim of sexism, it was and is your job to help her learn assertiveness and self-advocacy. Look first to yourself.  [/quote]

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