Heidi Graw wrote:
> >"Ben"  wrote in message
> >news:1107558447.171261.81460{at}f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> (snip)
>
> >>Heyrdahl wrote:
> >> At having the confidence instilled by a single mom and
uncomplicated
> >>by a sexist dad?
>
> >Ben wrote:
> >Have you ever seen how many successful young women thank their
fathers
> >for teaching them how to be confident and go for what they want?
Quite
> >a few.
>
> Ben, those fathers are not *sexist* Dads.  If I would have had a
sexist Dad,
> I'd probably be cow-towing to some other sexist man.  As if was, I
had a
> *feminist* Dad.  He was instrumental in my getting out there to take
on the
> world!  ;-)
>
> Heidi

You have to keep in mind that I was responding to Hy's use of the word
"sexist".  She tends to toss that word around quite a bit with no real
justification.

With regards to dads in general, it's neither feminist nor masculinist
to encourage your children of either gender to be all they want to
be--it's simply good parenting.  Your dad sounds like he was just being
a good father.



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