Comments on: There is Hope

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:36:28 +0000

You seem to combine two things which are not necessarily linked. Should little girls ideal be a 'pencil think beauty queen' at all? Certainly that is nothing of what I want for my daughters. The Proverbs 31 woman, as exemplified in their own mother, my lovely wife, is what I point them too.
I disagree that we need to 'balance' virtue per se with our children. Children need to idealize, and then as they grow older in maturity and wisdom they naturally see the strengths and weakness of those in authority over them… except for Christ, the perfect model. We should strive to 'be perfect' as we are instructed; our failures can be brought to Him, we need not anticipate them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:05:36 +0000

While I agree that the resurgence of the princess thing is good, I also think such things can be taken to extremes. When boys are prone to think that girls must be pencil-thin beauty queens, it can be incredibly damaging to girls as they get older. Similarly, when girls think that boys must be like Spiderman, the Peter Parkers of the world lose out. I think our approaches to virtue need to have a balance which elevates the ideal but maintains an awareness of the fact that nobody will be able to live up to those virtues all the time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:01:15 +0000

Roger, you're much to kind. Yes, my girls love to pretend they are princess. EVERY friend they play with also wants to be princesses.
You're right, it's much more fun to play “princess” when you have a prince.
In fact, part of the fun for them is when “prince philip” comes and kisses them, to wake them from their “sleep”.
It often strikes me that the point is that they need to have the masculine counterpart, to play off of that for the feminine princess.
We believe more and more that the “role” I play as Father and MALE, really helps then to understand how to fulfill their desires to be females.
I could go on and on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:36:07 +0000

Exactly right Roger. My daughters all are CRAZY about the princess stuff. My mother-in-law tells me when she and her husband where raising kids in the 70s and early 80s Disney's princess line was passe b/c the feminists objected for the same reasons you and I find the current trend heartening.
Disney gets some credit for that, though I know they have more than one motive (not that there's anything wrong with that). And they still produce movies that have the same message as the Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp. The wayward roaming male needs to be responsible and, dare I say it, domesticated (but NOT feminized of course).