re: hoover

I stand corrected! Immense.

Yeah, I guess it just depends on the family. I had the same thing with my ex's family when I got accepted to do my Master's degree. I was ecstatic to get onto the course I wanted, but they treated this as if I had just lost a relative to cancer. "Oh, that's such a shame" and was asked why I wanted to "go off and do…

And for the record, I have never seen a hoover toy in any other colour but pink.

I don't know, but I still see pink hoover toys featuring girls happily doing the housework in the shops, so somebody is obviously buying them.

Anything which breaks the gender norms of society for me, is special. Given that their is so much which reinforces traditional roles.

It means one less girl who grows up thinking that their place isn't in the kitchen and that looking beautiful isn't the primary aim, like the barbie or pink hoover and kitchen set…

I personally hated dolls as a child, yet as a girl, was given them. It was expected. Anything which breaks the mold of my own generation (and generations prior) I am going to applaud.

So buy dolls for your daughter, nowt wrong with that. It's not bad, just not special. That's all.

The problem is that feminism is actually a loosly grouped together field with many diverging ideas that equivicate to one goal.

The quote that feminism is basically about women being considered equally important is an honest one as it represents most theories within feminism.

Dismantling patriarchy (which I support, of…