You've got to worry about a community in which the Wakefields are held up as gold standards in good parenting. There should be a Bad Parent Challenge with George Fowler, absentee parent, up against Ned and Alice Wakefield, the parents who fail to notice when their children go insane!
It's Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, so that young uns can learn what women do in the workplace. Because this is 1942, and women in the workplace is an entirely new concept *rolls eyes*.
Yeah, as Wholahay on ANTM would say, what the hay-ell? Wouldn't boys benefit just as much from seeing what happens in a workplace? What about those whose mothers don't go out to work? What about those, who, like Lila, only live with their dad? I guess this is the school that shits all over deaf kids for, well, being deaf. Still, though, there is contrived and there is really fucking contrived.
Apparently Mandy's mum is a seamstress.
Does that mean there'll be a scene where Mandy gets everyone there to take off their shirt and say a big "fuck you" to the Perfect Size Six Nazis? Please?
I just had a thought. Who the hell stays with Lila at night? Mrs Pervis goes home, and her dad's always away. Does he seriously leave his barely teenage daughter all alone at night is a house that's huge and just screaming to be robbed? Freaky. It's called neglect
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Take Your Daughter to Work Day isn't a Sweet Valley invention. It was started by the Ms. Foundation in 1993 to give young girls exposure to various careers as a small way to combat certain career-related stereotypes and pressures the Ms. Foundation felt were unique to girls (i.e., no boy has ever felt his gender would keep him from being a lawyer, but girls might feel, directly or indirectly, the sense that lawyering is a "man's profession" because the traditional image of a lawyer is a dude). The program never specified, I don't think, whether daughters are to go with their mother or their father, which means that Lila could have gone to see her dad at work (there's your Sweet Valley contrivance) and daughters whose mums don't work outside the home could go with their dads.
You can absolutely go with your dad: I always did, because he works in an office and my mom works in an operating room. I wonder if people still do Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Nobody in my office ever has since I started working there.
Since Lila's still a kid I'm going to give her a pass on some of her "parenting skills". After all, she still thinks the Wakefields are great parents, so she's got a skewed perspective.
How insensitive was it for the Unicorns to be fighting about who had the best mother at lunch? They all know Lila's mother is absent. Plus, who's going to say, "My mom sucks; I vote for your mom." (This is pre-teenaged hate of all things parental, right?) That's weird.
Ooooohh! Mrs M demonstrates, and Lila hears a sound that's "like a telephone being dialed" and then a document is magically sent to New York! Oh, 1994. So advanced. Oooh! How exciting! Although, that sounds kinda like a fax machine, which isn't advanced at all for 1994.
If it's only a fax machine then that would be seriously awesome. :D I just wholly loved the description of an old-school intranet. Just you wait guys, soon your computers will be able to talk to every other computer in the world, and you can snark about anything you want and there'll be a group who shares your passion!
To be fair, look at Lila's only parental role model. Unless you count the absentee mother that randomly appears five years later. It's not like she'd need a mother during those high school years or anything.
And the hell is Lizzie Lou coming up with the plan to point out Ellie when it's not her book, damn it? Oh, Lila. How I love your put downs, though. Much better than the PH's "little windbag" comment.
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Yeah, as Wholahay on ANTM would say, what the hay-ell? Wouldn't boys benefit just as much from seeing what happens in a workplace? What about those whose mothers don't go out to work? What about those, who, like Lila, only live with their dad? I guess this is the school that shits all over deaf kids for, well, being deaf. Still, though, there is contrived and there is really fucking contrived.
Apparently Mandy's mum is a seamstress.
Does that mean there'll be a scene where Mandy gets everyone there to take off their shirt and say a big "fuck you" to the Perfect Size Six Nazis? Please?
I just had a thought. Who the hell stays with Lila at night? Mrs Pervis goes home, and her dad's always away. Does he seriously leave his barely teenage daughter all alone at night is a house that's huge and just screaming to be robbed? Freaky. It's called neglect ( ... )
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The program was expanded to include boys in 2003.
Wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Your_Daughter_To_Work_Day
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How insensitive was it for the Unicorns to be fighting about who had the best mother at lunch? They all know Lila's mother is absent. Plus, who's going to say, "My mom sucks; I vote for your mom." (This is pre-teenaged hate of all things parental, right?) That's weird.
Ooooohh! Mrs M demonstrates, and Lila hears a sound that's "like a telephone being dialed" and then a document is magically sent to New York! Oh, 1994. So advanced.
Oooh! How exciting! Although, that sounds kinda like a fax machine, which isn't advanced at all for 1994.
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And the hell is Lizzie Lou coming up with the plan to point out Ellie when it's not her book, damn it? Oh, Lila. How I love your put downs, though. Much better than the PH's "little windbag" comment.
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