Liberal Washington Post columnist Kate Cohen described raising her daughter as a 'feminist' and fretting about certain aspects of her upbringing, such as her shaving her legs to meet 'patriarchal beauty standards.'
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In a Thursday piece headlined,"Raising feminist sons seemed easy. A daughter? Much trickier," Cohen fretted over various aspects of her daughter growing up, including her interest in princesses as a child, her preference for wearing dresses, and her expressed desire to shave her legs."When I was a young mother, I was certain my husband and I could raise our two boys to be feminists. We took all the necessary steps.
Cohen expressed worry that her teaching her daughter how to cook and write thank-you notes, as she did with her sons, would bring her back to the 1950s. "I was on guard from the moment she was born. No Barbie dolls shall breach this perimeter! But as soon as she went to preschool, princesses and teen pop stars entered her consciousness and worked their Disney magic. At age 3, she would wear only dresses and announced, to her brothers’ consternation, that pink was a ‘girl color,’" Cohen wrote.