Need to watch what I say in front of my son

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theGOOCH

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Yesterday on the way to the store there was this gorgeous woman I've never seen before kind of speed walking around the neighborhood. My 4 year old son was staring and completely mesmerized by her. I asked if he thought she was pretty and without hesitation he said "I'd put a hurtin' on that"

I laughed so hard I almost wrecked.
 
theGOOCH said:
Yesterday on the way to the store there was this gorgeous woman I've never seen before kind of speed walking around the neighborhood. My 4 year old son was staring and completely mesmerized by her. I asked if he thought she was pretty and without hesitation he said "I'd put a hurtin' on that"

I laughed so hard I almost wrecked.
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hahahah! Awesome! :D "That's the spirit, son!" :p
 
Oh boy...make sure you have "the talk" early with that one...no one wants to be a grandfather while the kids are still kids. haha
 
Wow, that's crazy, 5 years old and saying that?!?

The most embarrassing thing my daughter (4) does is correct people on their manners, like telling them it’s rude to speak while others are speaking and stuff like that but she’s never said anything sexual before.
I do remember her being about 3 and patting a rather busty friends boobs and telling her they were like ‘bouncy castles’ :rofl:

Ah, she has been ‘Disney’d’ though, I told her that she was very clever recently and she told me that girls are pretty and boys are smart. Apparently girls can’t be smart and she gets quite upset at the suggestion that girls can be just as clever as boys. Needless to say I’m cutting films like Cinderella and Snow White out of her DVD library for a while.

Anyone know of any feminist kids films?
 
Typhon said:
Wow, that's crazy, 5 years old and saying that?!?

The most embarrassing thing my daughter (4) does is correct people on their manners, like telling them it’s rude to speak while others are speaking and stuff like that but she’s never said anything sexual before.
I do remember her being about 3 and patting a rather busty friends boobs and telling her they were like ‘bouncy castles’ :rofl:

Ah, she has been ‘Disney’d’ though, I told her that she was very clever recently and she told me that girls are pretty and boys are smart. Apparently girls can’t be smart and she gets quite upset at the suggestion that girls can be just as clever as boys. Needless to say I’m cutting films like Cinderella and Snow White out of her DVD library for a while.

Anyone know of any feminist kids films?
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Disney is all a conspiracy!
And awesome comment about the boobs!

Appearently, I once asked my grandma why her boobs were so big :p

and as for kids films with smart women... err.. nope.. none...
 
Yes, I'd have to say Mulan for her strength and bravery (although she had to dress like a boy to get anywhere).
I'd probably go with Belle from Beauty & the Beast. Pretty AND smart.
 
Typhon said:
Anyone know of any feminist kids films?
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Wow, that is pretty scary that your daughter said that about girls :confused: Ummm.....trying to thing of a kid friendly female strong movie. Hum......Kill Bill?


Ok, well, thinking back to when I was a kid I used to LOVE Pippy LongStocking. She was the strongest girl in the world with a ****load of adventures. Plus she was clever and I think always catching bad guys or something. I think she might've been what made me start wanting to do crazy things when I was younger. Plus she had a horse! Man, she was my hero up until I was lik 8-9.

Oh and Sailor Moon was one of my favorite cartoons on tv! All female super heros with a female villian. The super heros had all the good skills: smart, good singers, strong, had powers and had other hobbies as well.

Still can't really think of a kid feminist cartoon.......
 
Typhon said:
Anyone know of any feminist kids films?
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Problem with films for kids is... they're for kids. Show her some real stuff. She'll be aight... eventually. :D

Either that or y'know, get her interested in reading books. Old ones, preferably. (And the delusion will sort itself out very quickly.)

Also, here is .
 
[Focus] said:
Problem with films for kids is... they're for kids. Show her some real stuff. She'll be aight... eventually. :D

Either that or y'know, get her interested in reading books. Old ones, preferably. (And the delusion will sort itself out very quickly.)

Also, here is .
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I agree with everything on that page, mostly because that's how my parents raised me. Very early on I decided not to be like most of the other girls I knew. Guess what, I had more fun, got more opportunities and learned more by not getting caught up in doing only traditional girl things. I always thought playing with dolls and dressing up like a princess was boring anyway, climbing trees was much more fun. I wasn't an extreme tomboy though. I still played with stuffed animals, and now I'd consider myself fairly feminine in nature and dress.

As for movies, don't be afraid to show your children movies with sexist content, just make sure they understand that the stereotypes aren't true. Even a "feminist" movie like Mulan will carry stereotypes. Use them as an opportunity to start up a conversation about stereotypes and discuss things like, "Do you think it was right Mulan had to dress like a man to get anything done? Would you do that, or would you stand up for being a girl?"
 
Wow that's a really good link.


I especially like how it talks about avoiding rescuing girls. It's so true that parents try to toughen up their sons but when their daughters need help they run to them. I am a firm believer in letting kids learn from their mistakes and getting scratches, etc in the process.
 
My son gets up stands on the deck and stretches his arms and says "no waves, im goin back to bed wake me up when I have to start work" I wonder who he learnt that off.

Also he told a lady on the train when we were on holiday that she was dressed up like a ninja turtle.

He also told a relative who is bald not to worry because we like bald people.

Where do kids get this stuff?
 
Derwyddon said:
Typhon,
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Haha, very cool site, I'll have to see if there are any with British female hero's.

Mulan sounds like it might be worth a try, it's a shame she found love at the end though, I'd love to see a kids film where the female lead ended up happy without a man in the picture at all
 
Cool, in one of the newer ones I’ve seen (where Stephanie is clearly way too old to be playing a little girl) Sportacus holds a plank of wood over his head and Stephanie does a walking handstand across it.

Lazy Town is one of the only programmes I like my daughter watching, it shows her that even 8 year old girls with pink hair can have killer quads :D
 
tonymcclellan said:
My son is watching Lazytown right now.
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Lazytown creeps me out... that little girl doing some freaky stripper dancing around those old men of questionable sexual orientation. I dunno. However I neither confirm nor deny knowing all the moves to Stephanie's bing bang digarigadong dance.... :D
 
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