This Is What Moms Are Really Teaching Their Children When They Tell Them To Not See Race
Colorblindness doesn’t ask why there aren’t black kids living in the neighborhood. Colorblindness hands black girls blonde-haired Barbies.
Colorblindness doesn’t ask why there aren’t black kids living in the neighborhood. Colorblindness hands black girls blonde-haired Barbies.
That’s what being an adult means: knowing that no one’s going to do those invisible, annoying tasks unless you do them yourself.
I’ve also heard too many women refer to their daughters as princesses in person and online: “Oh, my princess won’t wear jeans,” one mom lamented. And then I saw the eye-searing portmanteau “twincesses,” and I nearly banged my head against the wall.