My Grandmother was routinely cheated on, had the crap beat out of her on a regular basis, had no education or job skills(so could not leave) and lived in a time when divorce was taboo due to religious/social pressures...in other words in those "good old days" you keep bringing were not so great for many women.
Yeah we have some problems today but I would take today's life over the glorious 50's any day. You might get nauseous over today's women but I get equally nauseous over the 50's portrayl of how women were supposed to be..the ones that in times of fear would bring their arm up to the mouth, scream and then faint...
Don't have kids yet and if I do have a girl(s) they will be brought up to be smart, ambitious, strong and independent...you can bet on that.
And "momtothree" is 100% correct. I have never seen a woman who was involved in sports to be lazy, have kids out of wedlock etc..
“My Grandmother was routinely cheated on...”
Glamorizing the “olden days” is easy to do. Facing the realities of what our Grandmothers and Great-Grandmothers endured and rose above is a different story. My Great-Aunt was similar... had the crap beaten out of her on a regular basis. No education or job skills to really escape and the societal pressure that only “bad” women left their husbands. Until the day that he beat her so badly that she gave birth to a stillborn baby later that night... a dead baby with bruises. She went to her parish priest who told her to “keep a nice house and not get him angry”. So she became a “bad” girl. She borrowed money and took the kids and left. Got a job in a city a thousand miles away.
Girls that participate in sports are less likely to do drugs, get pregnant as a teen, and do better academically. She is also more likely to have a positive “body image”.. meaning she isn’t sticking her finger down her throat to fit into a body mold defined as “feminine”. If and when you have daughters, you will be an awesome parent!