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conulyAnd in this day and age, no less! To her, I say, read the comments to the following link. They will be eye opening - and they're not even that bad!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyz-lenz/gender-discrimination_b_1987291.html
To synopsize here, the author was at a playground or park with her young toddler daughter, and said toddler was playing with a pile of slightly older boys. They were being a little rambunctious, but neither daughter nor mother had a problem with this until the parent of one of the boys yelled at her son, making him cry, because "we" don't play wild with girls, apparently. And the author told the other mother directly that her daughter was just fine, but the other mother ignored her and broke up the play to chastise her son anyway.
And this has happened before, which really irks the author. I feel her.
Now, if you can bear to read them, the comments are often the most interesting part of a news story. I certainly didn't try to read all of them, but there were many on the theme of "the author is wrong because you should never interfere with another persons parenting." Yes, heaven forbid we ever do that!
Aside from the simply fact that the author never spoke to the boys directly (so at worst she was butting in, not interfering. It's not like their mom said "no, they can't have the cookies you offered them" but she snuck cookies into their hands anyway), after a few repetitions of that comment the question presented itself to me: who was interfering with whom?
Check my logic here, because I'm not sure it holds up. If you have two parents, let's call them Lyz and Barbie because Lyz is the authors name, and Barbie goes and tells her child, in front of Lyz's girl, that he is not allowed to play with her in his usual way, even though neither the kid nor Lyz has a problem with it, simply because she is a girl... doesn't that interfere with Lyz's ability to raise her child to see that she can be active and "tough"? Isn't breaking up a happy group of kids against the other parents wishes, in a way, interfering with the others parenting? (Isn't iPads onscreen keyboard annoyingly laid out?)
I mean, it's basically telling other people's daughters how they are allowed to play, isn't it?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyz-lenz/gender-discrimination_b_1987291.html
To synopsize here, the author was at a playground or park with her young toddler daughter, and said toddler was playing with a pile of slightly older boys. They were being a little rambunctious, but neither daughter nor mother had a problem with this until the parent of one of the boys yelled at her son, making him cry, because "we" don't play wild with girls, apparently. And the author told the other mother directly that her daughter was just fine, but the other mother ignored her and broke up the play to chastise her son anyway.
And this has happened before, which really irks the author. I feel her.
Now, if you can bear to read them, the comments are often the most interesting part of a news story. I certainly didn't try to read all of them, but there were many on the theme of "the author is wrong because you should never interfere with another persons parenting." Yes, heaven forbid we ever do that!
Aside from the simply fact that the author never spoke to the boys directly (so at worst she was butting in, not interfering. It's not like their mom said "no, they can't have the cookies you offered them" but she snuck cookies into their hands anyway), after a few repetitions of that comment the question presented itself to me: who was interfering with whom?
Check my logic here, because I'm not sure it holds up. If you have two parents, let's call them Lyz and Barbie because Lyz is the authors name, and Barbie goes and tells her child, in front of Lyz's girl, that he is not allowed to play with her in his usual way, even though neither the kid nor Lyz has a problem with it, simply because she is a girl... doesn't that interfere with Lyz's ability to raise her child to see that she can be active and "tough"? Isn't breaking up a happy group of kids against the other parents wishes, in a way, interfering with the others parenting? (Isn't iPads onscreen keyboard annoyingly laid out?)
I mean, it's basically telling other people's daughters how they are allowed to play, isn't it?
