This is definitely one of those topics on which I discovered I was previously an unwitting asshole. I’m glad this became a topic of public conversation before my daughter got any older and I had to face the “support her tastes, while also sharing mine with her” vs. “be a condescending asshole and tell her what’s good and bad.” crossroads. I hope I would’ve seen the light on this myself, but I’m honestly shocked that it took me as long as it did, and that it took people pointing it out to me for me to realize how gross and hurtful it is do heap derision on young girls in this way and treat them like particularly “unfinished” humans.
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