Dear Emilia,
Today, you turn eleven years old.
Ten years, ago, I wrote you a letter for your first birthday. It was a letter that I imagined you might read many years from that date, perhaps...
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The current issue Discovery Girls magazine has a feature on how to pick the right bathing suit, because apparently girls (8 - 12, if we're going by DG's target demographic) should be worrying about...
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And Why Feminism Matters For Boys, Too
My seven year old son, Jasper, loves My Little Pony. A lot. He watches the show; he reads the books; he collects the mini-figures. He can tell you...
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Because, they say, it would be an inspiration to all girlkind. And because years and years and years of pretty much only men as world leaders and “seriously, again, 5 billion, like, old guys?”...
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From Instagram, the other week (mildly edited, for coherence):
This is Emilia. She likes princesses, surfing, American Girl dolls, dolphins, cake, her kitten, and, as of the other weekend, motorcycles. She is, to not put...
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'A lot of people felt that the world had grown too cynical for a sincere fairy tale.'
So says John Lasseter, at the beginning of a behind-the-scenes/making of documentary on Frozen, in explaining why that...
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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a princess. I wasn’t particularly fussy about what kind of princess I might be; indeed, my definition of ‘princess’ was pretty loose, to the...
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When I was 11 years old, I stole a horse. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say that I borrowed the horse — I had every intention of returning it — but still: I...
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The thing that I've always loved most about the story of Cinderella is the shoes.
The prince is fine, of course, as is the magical pumpkin-carriage and the fairy godmother and the castle and the...
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My son likes dresses. Princess dresses, mostly, but sometimes also fairy dresses, and tutus. He also likes toenail polish, and wigs, and my high heels. He has always liked these things. I've never questioned...
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