Teen takes on Seventeen, says magazine contributes to body image issues [More]My wife and I were blessed with sons but not with daughters. If we had been, they'd have been raised like my parents raised my sisters--with full access to and encouragement for microscopes, erector sets, baseball mitts and BB guns. I remember my older sister, when she was about 10, correcting a mistaken assumption when we were flying overseas, and Pan Am gave us boys "Junior Clipper Pilot" pins (real metal, with real pins on them, back before the days of TSA lunacy), and they tried to give her one that said "Junior Clipper Stewardess."
Strong, capable and intelligent women are more than people to cherish--they are the vital other half to a free and rational society. Judging from "popular" magazine, entertainment, commercials, what passes for "literature," etc., "someone" understands that quite well, and does their best to subvert it, all the while waving a collectivist banner deceptively called "feminism," and condemning individualists as sexist troglodytes--especially individualists who encourage everyone, regardless of sex, to be self-reliant and capable of armed defense.
South Park really nailed things here.