Why Being Female Is Awesome, According to an 8-Year-Old A Redditor’s daughter wrote this “unexpected” reaction to a writing assignment about being female. “We have veginas. We get jobs. We are creative. We have stuff that makes us preanet. We have milk in our bobes. We are smart. We have power.” You oughta be a proud pop (or mama?), david7902. SEE MORE: • Bryan Cranston and His Awesome Family Made an Awesome Gay Marriage PSA • Baby Sings Himself to Sleep While Dad Plays Metallica • Modern Family’s Lily Does Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ • Best Maternity Photos Ever • Daughter Colors In Dad’s Tattoos, Adorably [Link] HVculture HVCulture is our bin for all things Culture.
MaleMatters 21.07.12 @ 10:00 am Re: A Redditor’s daughter wrote this “unexpected” reaction to a writing assignment about being female. Nothing wrong with the assignment — unless the 8-year-old boys were not given a chance to write about being male. Imagine there was a writing assignment about being male (but none about being female) and a boy writing: We have “peanises.” We get jobs. We are creative. We have stuff that makes females praenet. We are smart. We have power. What would the response be? From feminists, likely this, among other things: “This is incredible sexist indoctrination of children!” Here’s an experience I had years ago with an 8-year-old girl: “Even the very young enforce gender roles of adults” at http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/even-the-very-young-enforce-gender-roles/
Childfree Texan 23.07.12 @ 10:41 pm This would be awesome if it didn’t include all that disgusting patriarchal bullshit about pregnancy and childrearing. That it totally irrelevant to being a powerful woman or human being. Even worms reproduce. So what! Just glad this isn’t my daughter or we’d have a long discussion about her messed up priorities.
Shazziz 25.07.12 @ 2:53 pm Why are you so angry about being jazzed at the concept that we are able to conceive? Whether we choose to or not is an individual choice. But the fact we are capable of this is amazing. This little girl is just acknowledging our power to do so. Plus, it’s a little girl, so it’s cute- chill out.
cee 31.07.12 @ 4:24 pm The assignment is the problem. Why should any kid be told that he/she is a gift to the universe? Come on. The teacher asked a kid to write about what is wonderful about being a girl (not about being you or being a person, but specifically about being female). The child took the assignment literally and answered with things that are specific to being female- childbearing and female genitalia. The teacher should have asked what is wonderful about their own lives, families, friends, etc.
James King 11.08.12 @ 10:00 am You wouldn’t have to worry about that with your daughter. Unless something really weird happened in the shuffling of the genes, she would likely be too stupid at that age to write like that, even with all the spelling mistakes. After all, children usually inherit roughly their parents’ intellect, and you are colossally stupid.
MarieKersey 05.10.12 @ 4:46 am That would be pretty adorable. But little boys in fact say stuff like that all the time, and having just read Freud, this is particularly awesome. I’m assuming the idea with the writing assignment (which I think was weirdly worded) was that girls are still made to feel inferior for being girls. Well, apparently not all of them.