Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Real Life

""Girls have elaborate hairstyling requirements. They whine and mope, manipulate and triangulate." "My sons sneer at all things princess, and so do I. We love to pore over the Birthday Express catalog so the boys can plan the themes of their parties through 2013. My role in this is to gasp, "Oh, I think you should have a pink-poodle party!" "YUCK!! That's for GIRLS!!" they shriek, and I laugh along with them. What will I do when I have someone who wants a pink-poodle party?" "I know not all girls are like this -- sugar and spice and Hannah Montana. My own niece provides a compelling dirt-under-her-fingernails counter example. Plus, I can choose not to expose my daughter to the pink princess world in the first place." "This child I was just starting to feel stir inside me was a girl? I waited for the excitement to wash over me. It didn't come. Not only was I not thrilled -- I was disappointed. I'm still not sure whether I was more bummed by how I found out or what I found out. Either way, I was shaken.""
 * Be honest, ladies and gentlemen. How many times have you used "girly" as an insult lately?
 * Lots of complaints towards the "childfree" community are caused by the very extreme reactions that a scarily cruel Vocal Minority has towards mothers and young children in general. Some extremely scary examples here. Behold at the one that calls a woman who had a miscarriage an "idiot moo cunt" who "fortunately miscarried", apparently proud of insulting a person for her tragedy.
 * Summarized quite well by Moviebob here. See approximately 9:19 for the most applicable part.
 * Feminist, transgender activist, and Whipping Girl author Julia Serano has written extensively about "Putting The Feminine Back In Feminism" and has criticized feminists, gay/lesbian communities, and society in general for denigrating femininity and treating it as "weak" and "artificial."
 * One example was a Teen Vogue article that said Scarlett Johansson was the sort of blonde bimbo bombshell that was appealing to guys, but a terrible role model for girls. Their reason for believing she was a terrible role-model: her near-perfect appearance she flaunts on the red carpet. Scarlett Johansson's beauty may be the first thing you see about her, but it isn't all there is to her. She is also very vocal about her opinions, which are typically well thought-out, and she is a timeless beauty icon who dresses more conservatively than many of her peers. The real Wall Banger: Most of the females who the article considers to be good role models are smaller than size zero. Bang. Bang.
 * Marissa Mayer. Blonde, beautiful, did 36 hours of ballet a week in high school. She has a PhD in computer science from Stanford, is a VP of Google, and gets criticized by (male) computer nerds for wearing designer clothing and demonstrating a Google App by using it to figure out great cupcake recipes.
 * Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, grew a company called Otterdesk into a billion dollar operation while raising three children and beating breast cancer. She clearly said "FUCK YOU" to this trope.
 * Why I didn't want a girl Some "jewels" including in this wangsty monologue from a whiny mother expecting her first daughter are here:


 * "U R not wearing any pants!"
 * Jade Raymond of Ubisoft, on top of earning a computer science degree from MIT (something quite rare in a male-dominated field), worked for years as a programmer, oversaw the creation of the Assassin's Creed franchise and now heads up Ubisoft Montreal. The way even some female contemporaries tell it, none of this matters because she's attractive and clearly only got ahead because of her boobies. Never mind that any man with her resume would be lauded for his success no matter what he looked like.
 * Raymond's example underlines the lead paragraphs quite nicely; this trope often comes about because female haters can't believe that Raymond is smart and driven and pretty. By assuming that Raymond got ahead because of her looks, they're supporting a Double Standard that they supposedly fight every day to overcome. With Friends Like These...
 * Don't hate me because I'm beautiful! is a rant against how negatively women tend to react against other women because they've got good looks, hating them just because they're more attractive and confident.
 * You did NOT taint the Disney Princesses by cosplaying them as such WHORES, did you?! Nice slut-shaming, peeps.
 * Inverted with Lipstick Feminism which says "real women wear dresses."