It turns out that Klara’s 65-year-old Christian school teacher is telling the kids utterly ahistorical things about women’s oppression. I knew something was off when I said, “I don’t lift heavy things. Daddy will do it” and Klara responded with a fiery speech about how wrong it is to be lazy. Then she told me that “in olden times women weren’t allowed to work or to vote.” To which I responded pedantically that for most of human history nobody voted and that there’s zero chance there was a single woman in our bloodline who avoided having to work.
Then I heard a story that a classmate of Klara’s responded to this indoctrination by doubting the wisdom of the female suffrage and was sent to the principal.
I will never understand why any of this is necessary in a 4th-grade classroom and why it’s so impossible to find a teacher who simply teaches instead of cultivating resentments.
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Kid, I am truly saddened to hear that your child’s mind was being poisoned with feminist propaganda. She is of the age when hormones begin to lead to first real crushes, I still remember each of mine fondly ;-D
And I also remember kindly Mrs. Aldcorn wisely managing to guided us through grade four and poor Miss Caldwell that simply could not handle hell-raising grade five boys as the hot afternoons of the summer holidays approached. Teachers do matter.
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Oh, no!
Are you planning to talk to the school about it, or just talk to your kid?
-ethyl
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The teacher is retiring at the end of this school year, so that’s good. But I’m upset because my lessons of femininity are falling flat and now I know why.
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\\ I’m upset because my lessons of femininity are falling flat and now I know why.
But how can a few words of one teacher be more important than living in a family?
Btw, what do you mean by lessons of femininity?
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Oh, it can matter. Almost seventy years ago and I can remember the names of those two teachers. One understood boys well enough to reward those children that had finished their work could be allowed to escape for several hours to play softball on hot afternoons. The other: dozy, listless, bored boys near to death by the treat of her readings from Anne of Green Gables or Little House on the Prairie. Teachers matter ;-D
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And as a special treat for the frowning gutless wonders downvoting ;-D
https://bustednuckles.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Download-5.mp4
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In olden times women did plenty of heavy lifting, particularly carrying water.
https://www.granger.com/0118681-africa-zulu-women-zulu-women-and-children-balancing-water-j-image.html
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Feminism has always been a project of affluent women.
Everybody else–men, women, and children– worked sunup to sundown just to survive, until five minutes ago historically.
Used to know a gal, child of refugee immigrants, who got suckered into the liberal college experience thing. Degree in Women’s Studies. She admitted, sheepishly, years after attaining this degree, that… it wasn’t good for much, and seemed to be largely about the concerns of upper middle class white women– not really relevant to, say, any women she was related to, or knew growing up. Like, what is this whole “work-life balance” thing they are so obsessed with? Everybody works to pay the mortgage, put food on the table, etc. Duh. How could it be any other way?
-ethyl
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Exactly. I want my child to be taught real history, not these boutique resentments of spoiled women.
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methylethyl
Yeah, I am afraid that Trump’s “Gilded Age” was not exactly as advertised ;-D
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2019/11/the-faces-of-child-labor/
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I’m the first generation of women in my family that only lifts weight at the gym and I’m hanging on to this advance. 😂😂
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LOL ;-D
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