Why is that men think it’s okay to spoil and overprotect and dumb down their daughters? Don’t they realizes the thoughts going through their own heads and remember the way they treated girls in the past? I think all fathers would agree that they don’t want their daughters to go through the things that they know men put women through. So the question remains as to why they won’t hip babygirl to the game? Is it more important to pretend to be bashful and refuse to break the male code of silence in order to hold up your manliness as a father or try the best you can to keep your daughter from necessary harm? And that doesn’t mean coddling and sheltering because you will not always be around to save your daughter or knowledgeable about the dangers she’s facing in today’s world. It means teaching your daughter how to fend for herself and opening up a line of open and honest communication and support. And no, that doesn’t mean turning your daughter into a woman who will feel the sting of the “independent woman” backlash, but being a woman in the know doesn’t mean she has to be some June Cleaver Stepford wife, either. If you give your daughter a backbone of her own, it’ll hopefully keep you from having to break someone’s son’s backbone later.
