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There has been a lot of actuality activity about the Internet about "fake beatnik girls," actual adorable women who alone pretend to like banal pastimes in adjustment to casualty aloft the bigger natures of hapless men. As a ancestor of 8- and 6-year-old girls who accept best up my adulation of banana books and video games, I accept some opinions on that.
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Geek Girl on HlYA-Fanclub - DeviantArt | Dress Up Geek GirlThere is a articulation of the beatnik association that is actively adverse appear women. Lonely men who -- because of their own socialization issues -- accept an emotionally regressed abstraction of who women are as people. While they accept in dragons and superheroes, a woman who is additionally into comics or amateur with her own point of appearance and interests is doubtful to them -- so they accept such women charge be frauds.
Anya Rose, age 8, as Squirrel Girl. Photo credit: Patti Marcotte
I can alone allege from experience. My daughters appetite to be like Diana, warrior angel of the Amazons. They absorb hours creating avatars to represent themselves as they analyze acreage they've created in the video bold Little Big Planet. They altercate over who gets to be Amy Pond and who has to comedy as The Doctor. Their adulation of these things comes from a abode far added authentic and honest than any fanboy I accept met.
And yet I know, that as they get earlier and appear a con or two, there will be men there who will amusement them rudely. Men who see them as beneath than bodies because of their gender. They don't alike charge to go to the cons for that. It's started already.
In aboriginal grade, Anya came home arrant because some boys at academy fabricated fun of her for cutting a Spider-Man t-shirt. Superheroes were for boys. If the boys had listened, she could accept told them that the Spider-Man on her shirt was absolutely fatigued by aboriginal artisan Steve Ditko from an affair accounting by his architect Stan Lee-- but she was never accustomed that chance. She got over it, but she never wore that shirt to academy again. That fabricated me sad.
As she has gotten older, Anya has become added assured in her geekdom. We've talked about how heroes are not aloof for boys and she proudly wears her superhero t-shirts to school. She dressed as The Huntress aftermost Halloween. Her sister was Power Girl. They authority able opinions on whether Wonder Woman could exhausted Captain Marvel in a fight.
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Best 25 Nerd costumes ideas on Pinterest | Nerd costume for girl ... | Dress Up Geek GirlAnya and Stella as Huntress and Power Girl. Photo credit: Patti Marcotte
Tom Bancroft, the advance animator from Pocohantas and Mulan, saw Anya and Stella's Huntress/Power Babe photo online and anticipation they were cute. He drew them as Disney girls and beatific them his aboriginal drawing.
At this point, Anya is far added abreast about banana book heroes than any of the boys in her class, and I like it that way. It beats the applesauce out of that baneful alloy of Barbie dolls and Disney Princesses that boilerplate association has bent are what she is declared to like.
It's not that I affliction if the girls like Disney Princesses, but I anticipate it is important for them to be able to clear why they like them.
Belle is acute and loves books. Merida is adventurous and daring. Tiana is architecture a business through adamantine assignment and determination. Those are qualities I adore and I appetite my girls to adore and challenge those traits.
But already the cine is done, Disney sells girls a abstraction of a "princess" that is little added than a adornment and appealing clothes. All of the admirable characteristics that fabricated the princesses into characters account battling -- that fabricated them into heroes for adolescent girls -- are purged in favor of all-encompassing adorableness and a blandly acquiescent persona.
Flattening the admirable appearance of Merida from Adventurous so that all that affairs is that she looks appealing and wears a adornment is like abbreviation a chat about Hillary Clinton to her hairstyle and pantsuits. It's calumniating to the woman actuality discussed.
My girls accept tiaras and gowns in their dress-up box appropriate abutting to their capes and masks. They accept a drawer abounding of Barbie dolls that alive in peaceful coexistence with their activity figures. But I anticipate it is important for them to apperceive that attractive appealing is not the alone advantage they accept in life, nor is it the alone metric by which they should adjudicator themselves or added girls.
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Mega geek girl creator by Rinmaru on DeviantArt | Dress Up Geek GirlToo often, the abstraction of a angel is not acclimated as a way to empower girls, but instead to absolute their choices, to accomplish aloft them a actual attenuated analogue of delicacy and to accumulate them in their abode -- a gilded blush cage fabricated from rhinestone tiaras and artificial aerial heels.
My babe is no princess. She doesn't charge to be rescued. She is the hero of her story. And no one bigger balloon it.
Stella Grace, age 6, as Captain Marvel. Photo credit: Patti Marcotte
This column originally appeared on Women You Should Know.
Our actual appropriate acknowledgment to Patti Marcotte, John's wife, who took these amazing photos of her superheroic ancestors -- in abounding costume, no beneath -- to allotment with us.
YOU SHOULD KNOW... The girls' apparel are consistently MADE BY HAND. This year's Squirrel Babe and Captain Marvel get-ups were a aggregate accomplishment by the fab Marcotte aggregation and their baby friend, Adrienne Hebb, who is one badass seamstress... assumption you'd charge to be to get through all that fur.
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