Mom enforces girls-only gathering at the playground

the adult you shooed off is a mom, possessor of the same crumbs you’ve been fed, no? So don’t you think she would have just liked to hang with some fellow moms in the park?

I mean, maybe not now. I’d avoid you thereafter if it were my kids you boyshamed … for wanting to play with girls, by the way. As if they were fellow people or something. (How are you with irony?)

If you’re going to have an exclusive gathering, then host it on private property.

And if you’re going to accuse anyone of being “entitled,” then ask yourself who just asked the world to bend to whom.

Re: Girls-Only Playdate My 5thgrade boy has always gravitated to playing with girls. Please don’t group all boys into a stereotype of being disruptive or playing a different way than girls play. You do kids a disservice by not treating them as the individuals they are.

To: Playground Drama: I have two kids, a boy and a girl, and consider myself an extreme feminist, for whatever that’s worth; I just think that women should be treated like humans, but apparently that’s radical.

Think of it this way: You are perpetuating the exclusion of one sex over the other in society. Kids are kids. Adults teach them that one sex is different from the other, or only gets to do certain things. You are doing the same, but at the expense of a little boy who wanted to play on a playground.

Yes – equality, not payback. Thank you. “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.” Gandhi.