Anotherjack. How comforting that you do not totally disagree with well established scientific, psychological and biological proofs based solely on your own experience as a child with a tea set.
I'm with you. By the time I was 5 or 6, I'd grown out of the "princess" phase that nearly every little girl goes through, and had moved on to superheroes and ninjas. I consider myself very lucky to have had parents who encouraged independence and discouraged blind conformity. I shudder to think how I would have turned out if my parents had forced me to wear dresses and play with Barbies. I'm not saying that parental discretion is never in order. I'm just saying I have no respect for the mom who told her little girl she couldn't have a Buzz Lightyear doll because it was for boys. And a 5-year-old wanting to dress up like a princess? Yeah, he's probably going to get picked on if he keeps that up, but that doesn't mean he's going to turn into a trenchcoat-wearing Neo-Nazi. If every victim of childhood hazing ended up becoming a sociopath, I would have been committed/jailed/shot a long time ago, and so would most of the people here, I'm pretty sure.
piddlydOct 13, 2009
Anotherjack. How comforting that you do not totally disagree with well established scientific, psychological and biological proofs based solely on your own experience as a child with a tea set.
deadpoetic333Oct 14, 2009
Am I the only one that feels like complete scum for laughing at that?
diiiiOct 14, 2009
I'm with you. By the time I was 5 or 6, I'd grown out of the "princess" phase that nearly every little girl goes through, and had moved on to superheroes and ninjas. I consider myself very lucky to have had parents who encouraged independence and discouraged blind conformity. I shudder to think how I would have turned out if my parents had forced me to wear dresses and play with Barbies. I'm not saying that parental discretion is never in order. I'm just saying I have no respect for the mom who told her little girl she couldn't have a Buzz Lightyear doll because it was for boys. And a 5-year-old wanting to dress up like a princess? Yeah, he's probably going to get picked on if he keeps that up, but that doesn't mean he's going to turn into a trenchcoat-wearing Neo-Nazi. If every victim of childhood hazing ended up becoming a sociopath, I would have been committed/jailed/shot a long time ago, and so would most of the people here, I'm pretty sure.
aviannaOct 15, 2009
WTF!
ngoaOct 16, 2009
This is so f-up in so many ways...
spoomeisterOct 18, 2009
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you're not a parent.
spoomeisterOct 18, 2009
That explains Hasbro's My Little Stripper Pole.