Imagine you’re six-years-old, and you’ve just learned to read.
Your teacher is a woman, your principal is a woman, your babysitter is a woman, your pediatrician is a woman, and your mom is your primary caregiver.
Maybe you even have a sister or two, so you’ve wound up in the girls’ department at Nordstrom’s, trying to entertain yourself while your mom and sisters shop.
Then you see this shirt.
And you have no understanding of the history of feminism or women’s suffrage. You have no idea that women earn 77 cents to a man’s dollar, or that there’s a “Mommy Track” or that women make up just 22% of congress — a record high in the history of America.
You just know that girls do, in fact, rule your life. And if girls rule, then boys must not. (Maybe they even drool, depending on the t-shirt.) Boys must be inferior to girls, like girls were to boys for decades, centuries, millennia.
Why would we want to teach our boys that?
I agree with you wholeheartedly! From birth to age 4 I was raised by my mother and older sister (4 years older than me)I was taught at a very early age that girls are better than boys. I had no say at all about anything it was all up to my mother and sister. If I didn’t want to wear a shirt that was too small for me they made me wear it anyway. My mother would tell me that I wasn’t going to tell her what I was wearing. I learned that if a girl hits you don’t hit her back. But if that girl hits you first then a boy should hit her back. I am not advocating hitting girls or women, however a boy has to defend himself! My sister would fight me and tear my shirts and pull me around by my shirts stretching them out she would just laugh. If I pulled her shirts she would slap my face.And I was the one that got into trouble. When I would look at her clothes how nice they were compared to my shirts(rags) and my pants hanging off of me I got the message that girls were superior to boys. I grew up believing that whatever a girl does to you that you have to take it like a man. Sorry for ranting on like this but saw this post and it struck a nerve.