can i get a hellyeah? can i get an amen?

[matociquala]

Max Barry: TESTIFY!

As I said on twitter, I get more grateful for fathers of daughters every day.

Comments

[mrissa]

One of the pieces of advice I've seen for young women entering college in technical fields is that if your department doesn't have a woman in it, look for a man who has daughters age 6-12 for that kind of mentoring, because he may not "get" everything, but he may well have firm ideas about how he does not want some jackasses treating his baby girl when she's a grown-up nerd.

I hope this is less and less applicable with each passing day, and my own experience was that my department was filled with caring, aware mentors with or without daughters (2 of 6 had them), but still, I was reminded.

[matociquala]

I suddenly think Max Barry is hawt. *g*

[cjtremlett]

I've been working up a similarly themed rant about summer movies and female characters in summer movies. I love the term "Smurf Stories" for all of those things!

[madrobins]

Could I retroactively appoint him my father? Cause as a mother of girls, and a writer, and a girl myself (senior division) I am so sick of Male being the Default setting I could bite someone.

[kolraashgadol]

dogs and smurfs about covers it. But what pisses me off is that publishers do this because they say that boys only identify with boy characters, whereas girls will identify with either. Well, do these people actually not understand the point of literature? Why the hell are these folks working in the publishing business. The *point* of literature is to get into someone else's head and understand them. Oh, okay, if that won't do it, how about htis. My son, who is 7, has always had stories with girls and women read and told to him, and guess what, he doens't have any problem with it. When he picks out books for himself, it's true that he often picks out books with boy characters that involve alot of farting, but he loves pippi longstocking, and since we walk everywhere, he demands a lot of stories - so, I tell him a lot of folktales - not the namby-pamby sickening Cinderella type stories where the girl is helpless, but stories where girls kick ass (like Clever Manka, Whoopity Stoorie -which has an old ugly woman who kicks ass: