(June 26, 2016 at 11:44 am)Rhythm Wrote: I had to deal with this one IRL recently. My daughter was in tears about how unfair it was that she had to wear a shirt. She's a snowflake, it's hot....we don't have ac, they run around the house stark naked. The rules beyond my walls aren't the same as the rules within my walls. It was her contention that this was unfair, particularly in that her brothers don't have to wear shirts. I told her that it was unfair, but that I wasn't going to make her brothers do something I thought was silly anymore than I would make her do something I thought was silly -if it were up to me...but it isn't.
Hopefully, that instills in her the notion that the way to go about approaching equalty and inequality, is not to insist that puritan rules be applied to others.
What you did teach her was that unless everyone is effected no one is encouraged to change the rules to be fair. You taught her fairness does not apply to girls. If you have no restrictions it's unlikely you will concern yourself with the restrictions of others. The is the core power exchange of the remnants of a patriarchy.
