Re: For Eve (and anyone else who wishes to post)

Hi, I'm the anyone else who wishes to post.

I grew up with a Barbie doll, but it seems like in my day Barbies were not a 'role model'. People started to give my little girl Barbies for presents when I was still having a lot of mixed feelings about today's Barbie. So I started to make some rules about the kind of Barbies and Barbie paraphernalia she could keep.
Ev has just called this 'extreme feminism'. Sorry my friend, but I don't quite agree with your choice of words. I think there's nothing wrong with femeninity, and and that in our society is a dying art. What Barbie teaches is extreme *sexism* at a very early age. This sexualizing of young girls is rampant everywhere.
Has anyone noticed the new heels available in children's sizes all over the shoe stores? The micro short skirts, exposed bellys? All these for girls 13 and under.
It's an attitude which has been spread across every facet of our culture. Barbie is just one of the many things which blatantly expresses this lack of modesty and restraint for little girls and young women.
So the attitude I took regarding my daughter's dolls (she just turned eight in December)is she can have the princecess with long dresses and the ballerinas, and one mommy with little girl in same outfit, but she may not keep anything that reflect these things I mentioned above.
There are an enormous number of things, i.e: movies, cartoons, t.v. programs, magazines and even books, that I don't allow near her. So I'm constantly out to provide things that will entertain her without compromising her inocence and childhood. I have come to the conclusion that I have to choose my battles if I'm going to have a daughter with the values I'd like to instill in her, but without provoking her to complete frustration and rebellion.
Very honestly, I need to daily count on the Lord to show me His wisdom, 'cause a delicate balance like this one I'm bound to screw up unassisted.
Glad you asked and made me think.
Alikat ~♥~ Tweet