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In reply to the discussion: "We raise girls to cater to the fragile egos of men." [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Their mamas waited on them hand and foot, waited on daddy hand and foot. Mama never taught them to cook and clean and wash their own clothes, because that was "woman's work".
Then they have to get a mail order bride to wait on them, because American women get educations and are too "uppity" to be household slaves.
I know a woman dentist whose father thought she would be a dental hygienist.
When he found out, when she graduated, that she was a D.D.S., a real dentist, he blew a fuse and got mad as hell at her because she wasn't supposed to do that. Women were not supposed to be doctors or dentists. True story. She is in her sixties now.
Her older sister said when they were little that he told her he wouldn't play with her because she was a girl. Older sister has been an attorney for many years now. Turns out daddy had a secret second family with sons, that older sister only found out about a couple of years ago.
I was told as a kid on the one hand to coddle men and not appear too smart, and on the other hand told I was brilliant because I could read when I was three and had a really high IQ when I took a Stanford-Binet at age 5. 3 SDs above normal (145).
Talk about mixed messages, those put downs of girls and women are still very prevalent.