"When my boys watch and embrace Dora, they learn that masculinity is not the center of the universe even though so many things around them attempt to confirm this as a universal truth."

etherspirit · 2009-04-30T02:43:44+00:00

As Bill Maher once said, "Look at television. Look at any sitcom. The wife is always brilliant, and ethereal, and right about everything. And the husband is always a dumb fuck lucky-to-have-found-her."

caldera15 · 2009-04-30T03:27:14+00:00

When I tell the boys that not all girls like dolls, or makeup, Dora has always been able to serve as a ready marker of truth in my words.

yes, because after all, children's cartoons are an excellent representation of reality. It's not like they are drawn up in a back room animation studio or anything...

ReligionOfPeace · 2009-04-30T09:09:06+00:00

Her boys are embracing Dora.

Shit. Give them another 7 or 8 years and they'll be embracing sailor moon hentai and tentacle porn!

PierceHarlan · 2009-04-30T13:29:50+00:00

Funny, isn't it, that our feminist sisters are perfectly OK that countless boys and girls are being raised by just a woman or even two women, and are being taught in our schools by all women or virtually all women. The absence of male role models in the most critical aspects of our children's lives is of no concern to them, and in fact, is often celebrated as some twisted form of empowerment. Yet these same feminists have a conniption because girl cartoon characters are underrepresented.

Reading these myopic feminist screeds truly is akin to going down the rabbit hole and entering Wonderland.

BestServedCold · 2009-04-30T03:03:41+00:00

This woman sure does present her opinions as fact, without citation, based on nothing more than her say so.

I hope when her boys are ready and interested, she lets them play football and watch GI Joe and buys them race cars to play with.

I also hope that there's a male figure in these boys' lives because there is a lot to being a man that no woman has ever known and never will.

etherspirit · 2009-04-30T15:50:34+00:00

"We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need." Tyler Durden, Fight Club

turdsandwords · 2009-05-01T22:21:58+00:00

Dora also says it's ok to be fat: http://wineandexcrement.com/dora-the-explorer-to-introduce-new-chubby-native-american-friend/1340/

Muphry · 2009-04-30T03:59:06+00:00

This seems a bit out of place as a "Men's rights" article. Sure, the author seems like a silly feminist that obsesses a bit too much over Dora, but it doesn't seem like any rights are really being taken from men.

chaconne · 2009-04-30T04:05:18+00:00

Well cool. I like this submission, thanks.

Ocin · 2009-04-30T02:48:31+00:00

I thought that was a good article.

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