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Speaking Freely: An Evening With Remarkable Women

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Mon, Nov 08 11:33:35 PM (PT)
From S. Maple in SF :
Refuse to buy gender-stereotyped dolls for any child, especially the ones like those you mentioned, which are manufactured overseas by people in factories where health conditions for workers are a problem. Baby dolls with realistic genitalia, however, are good for both sexes, and can be made at home as rag dolls pretty easily. Make them with your kids, and use the opportunity to talk about how everybody's body is ok. Before they watch any tv on their own, please watch tv with your kids. Explain the motives of the people who make toy ads, and the techniques used to manipulate us to buy things. Find sheroes and heros to talk about with all your kids. This will be easier if you have some sheroes and heros yourself. Look at yourself, first. Look at your family heritage, as well. Let them know they are growing up in a family that stands for truth and tolerance. My greatest shero and hero outside my family are Margaret Mead and Bertrand Russell. S.Maple

Mon, Mar 11 5:50:54 PM (PT)
From irene in Alaska :
I hope and think I would have had the support and insight, to have raised girls with little to no difference as I raised my 2 boys. My gut says I may have been a tad harder on them, to help insure them walking out into the world with all the extra strength and courage they would need. I have moved through the regrets of not having a daughter or two of my own. I now stand ready to support and share learned lessons with any young woman that is sent into my life and to call her, "Daughter". To be the wind beneath her wings. ^i^

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