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Here we go again - Women just aren't "allowed" to be stand up for themselves.
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 435193" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Even when I was a kid, nobody ever would have labeled me as beeing too demure, too unassertive, or too dependent on anybody. I don't know if it was because I was an only child or because I grew up in a rural neighborhood with mostly boys (who I regularaly beat the snot out of), or because of something else. Having been around awhile and observed a lot of kids, I tend to think it was something I was born with. Why is it that some people grow up spending their whole lives worrying about what other people think and others of us have really never given a rat's patootie? </p><p> </p><p>I am having a hard time with my granddaughter (age 6) because she's a really "girly-girl", meaning, she buys into a lot of that drama and foolishness. It was probably wrong of me the other day to tell her to grow a pair of balls, but it just slipped out. I don't understand that kind of thinking. I don't see that she's been taught it; it just seems to come naturally to her, although I do think a lot of it is cultural. It just never took on me.</p><p> </p><p>I raised boys and I tried to raise them in such a way as to know that when anybody, male or female, said no it meant no. I tried to raise them to respect other people, regardless of their gender or anything else. I'm still evaluating whether I was at all successful, but, thank God, I didn't have to raise girls. They seem to be much harder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 435193, member: 135"] Even when I was a kid, nobody ever would have labeled me as beeing too demure, too unassertive, or too dependent on anybody. I don't know if it was because I was an only child or because I grew up in a rural neighborhood with mostly boys (who I regularaly beat the snot out of), or because of something else. Having been around awhile and observed a lot of kids, I tend to think it was something I was born with. Why is it that some people grow up spending their whole lives worrying about what other people think and others of us have really never given a rat's patootie? I am having a hard time with my granddaughter (age 6) because she's a really "girly-girl", meaning, she buys into a lot of that drama and foolishness. It was probably wrong of me the other day to tell her to grow a pair of balls, but it just slipped out. I don't understand that kind of thinking. I don't see that she's been taught it; it just seems to come naturally to her, although I do think a lot of it is cultural. It just never took on me. I raised boys and I tried to raise them in such a way as to know that when anybody, male or female, said no it meant no. I tried to raise them to respect other people, regardless of their gender or anything else. I'm still evaluating whether I was at all successful, but, thank God, I didn't have to raise girls. They seem to be much harder. [/QUOTE]
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