This isn't exactly a feminist tirade, but this is written by a woman, and it is written in annoyance. You raise your girls to be sweet, strong, and independent. (Wise parents teach their children to listen to opinions and discard or heed accordingly. The other ones just teach their kids to bullshit everything that everyone says. Still others bring up girls to be on guard and forget that spine so that everyone thinks well of them. I am not sure which is worse, but I detest people shoving their opinions down other people's throats in a show of liberation, so I'll lean towards the former. But only slightly.) As the gender construct of being a 'female' is pushed even further, you teach your daughter complicated activities – driving, perhaps, sending them off away from home, wearing a sari (those freaking pleats!), cooking and de-veining prawns for added advantage. At the end of that, you have a person who genuinely dislikes blending into anything, doesn't like bei...
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Bises
Wish you the very best, may all your wishes come true, may you find your king this year ;-)
Pradeep
Happy Birthday!!. Here is a small poem for u on ur bithday (found it on the net)
Today is your day to celebrate
your day to be the star
so let the ones you love all cheer
and say how special you are
A year of fun and happiness
is my birthday wish for you
You are someone special
and your birthday should be too!
Happy Birthday!!
-J [teerathyatra]
Have a good one.
am a regular reader of your blog but always too lazy to comment... but since its your day and you have made it quite clear that you would like to be wished by one and all :) Happy Birthday!
Your's is one heck of a special blog!
take care.
(2nd mistake)
Thank you! Thank you!!!!