I’m sure it was innocent enough and the author didn’t think twice about it, but in this age of purple and pink princess culture, I couldn’t let it go – a post on Kamloops 24-hr Bidding for a “girl’s” kitchen set. So I posted a short comment –
Please don’t call it a girl’s kitchen set. Women have been working to ditch that stereotype since the 1970’s. 🙂
The author of the post was, not to my surprise, offended and replied, “Sheesh! I just said that because it belonged to my girls!”
I was tempted to respond with an apologetic explanation of my reasoning, but feared it would end up coming across as a self-righteous, patronizing lecture, so I left it at that . . . hoping that somehow my comment will stick in the mind of anyone reading it.
