Teach them how to fishvirtue http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com By Nancy Sungyun Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 By Nancy Sungyun Teach them how to fish no By Nancy Sungyun Teach them how to fishvirtue http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com Barbie’s plastic surgery http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com/2009/10/barbies-plastic-surgery/ http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com/2009/10/barbies-plastic-surgery/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0000 admin http://www.teachthemhowtofish.com/?p=42             In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, an author of,  A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman, argued that girls should be educated to strengthen their body, heart and mind.  During her time females were being taught to focus on learning how to be physically attractive to men so that they may be cared for by the men.

Consequently, the most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart.  Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.  Infact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

-Mary Wollstonecraft

            Over two hundred years later, Mattel appears to completely lack a good sense and a sense of responsibility toward how some of their best customers are being powerfully mis-educated by them.  You can read about it at:

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/10/13/barbies-fat-ankles-latest-flap-racial-body-image-controversies

 

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