tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post117645332588474177..comments2024-03-24T09:36:51.494-04:00Comments on delagar: Looks Like You Got Yourself A Feminist Theredelagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-67723806932363486602013-06-25T16:03:59.758-04:002013-06-25T16:03:59.758-04:00Aw, anonymous, thanks!
I don't think I have w...Aw, anonymous, thanks!<br /><br />I don't think I have written up my parenting style/rules. Maybe I'll do that next!<br /><br />(You know I love laying down the law!)delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-40958731835313711402013-06-24T21:44:42.208-04:002013-06-24T21:44:42.208-04:00Reading this post made me more than just a little ...Reading this post made me more than just a little happy! I don't know if you've done this already but would you mind sharing your parenting tips and how you raised your child to be so bright? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-45177936163203925922013-06-23T22:41:30.252-04:002013-06-23T22:41:30.252-04:00Ha! Michelle, we got the white chair when the kid ...Ha! Michelle, we got the white chair when the kid was four months old. It was Dr. Skull's idea. I told him he was insane. Those were my exact words. "You're insane," I said. "We have a four month old."<br /><br />"We'll just keep her off it," he said.<br /><br />BWAHAHA!<br /><br />The chair is only *technically* white at this point.<br /><br />delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-5394457512516522202013-06-23T17:52:15.217-04:002013-06-23T17:52:15.217-04:00This was a wonderful read!
Also, may I just say ...This was a wonderful read! <br /><br />Also, may I just say that I think you are very brave to have a white chair and a child. Or even just a white chair at all. I can't even buy white shirts if I want them to last more than a week. Kudos. Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07801229525416203656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-9407124596298076012013-06-22T22:43:45.446-04:002013-06-22T22:43:45.446-04:00LOVE this. LOVE this. jo(e)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01488562158252331555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-51251370575359050112013-06-19T19:29:15.129-04:002013-06-19T19:29:15.129-04:00*happy sigh**happy sigh*Athena Andreadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07650180659001228746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1913830192431430532013-06-19T13:25:50.595-04:002013-06-19T13:25:50.595-04:00That's clearly a point of view, anonymous, and...That's clearly a point of view, anonymous, and you're welcome to hold it.delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-77425985150656562432013-06-19T13:19:06.689-04:002013-06-19T13:19:06.689-04:00The passage is very near the beginning of the book...The passage is very near the beginning of the book, N&M, when Graf and the other guy whose name I can never remember are discussing whether to send toddler Ender up to Battle School. They mention that very few girls have qualified for the school because they have "centuries" of evolution working against them.<br /><br />I think that's the part that really pissed the kid off -- the sexism, sure, that was annoying, but hardly surprising. It was Card measuring human evolution in centuries that really got down her neck. (See, because back on the Serengeti plain, human females were fierce, but now that we've spent centuries in the suburbs...)<br /><br />To be honest, I didn't expect her to hate the book as much as she did. I've got her reading classic literature, and that one is one of the classics of SF, however we might feel about OSC. But wow. She really hated it.<br />delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-8609280964625894932013-06-19T13:17:25.268-04:002013-06-19T13:17:25.268-04:00I'm glad to see that delagar junior is develop...I'm glad to see that delagar junior is developing fine morals. <br />I have to say, though, that if you don't report Lily's mother to the school board then you're not upholding your own standards. <br />It made the post a bit conflicting in my eyes. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-17187507626994890372013-06-19T12:50:01.201-04:002013-06-19T12:50:01.201-04:00Awesome! I hope my children are as aware.
(I con...Awesome! I hope my children are as aware.<br /><br />(I confess, I totally must have skipped over that part of Ender's Game, or else just put it in the category of, "a product of its time" along with most science fiction and fantasy I read growing up. Only Piers Anthony and Anne McCaffrey didn't get "product of their time" byes for sexism in my mind, the latter because date rape by the protagonist being ok isn't a product of her time, the former because the Xanth series isn't actually good enough on any dimension to be worth the overt sexism.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com