Okay I think I'm calm enough to reply to this thread now...
What does that woman want her daughter to grow up as? A prostitute?
"Here, honey, dress up in this short skirt make sure most of your buttons are undone and, oh don't forget to take a packet of condoms with you when you're on your rounds? We don't want you losing your popularity!"
Sheesh, I worked in several bookstores and I am SO pleased I didn't have a woman saying that to their daughters. In fact I had a rather good experience:
This father was browsing through the Second World War section of the store and his little girl who couldn't have been more than four at the time; sweet little thing with blonde hair and cute voice pointed at a picture and said:
"Who's that?"
The dad said: "Adolf Hitler."
"Was he a nice man?"
"No, he wasn't he was nasty."
And so on and so on. This man encouraged his daughter's questions, and she was a little girl. I felt so pleased to have witnessed that event.
I grew up in a houseful of books, my mother read to me when I was a child. I didn't start reading until I was eight or nine... But when I did start to read all my teachers and my parents breathed a huge sigh of relief as they were all worried I was dyslexic. I can't help but read... and have I had male attention?
Yes! Once I had two guys flirting with me - And once I had another guy fancy me on the spot - whilst I was in Hospital and looked my worst. Most guys want a woman they can talk to if they're serious about relationships.
It's one of the main reasons why I love the Legally Blonde film. It's this girl who was brought up to be the Prom Queen; the Pageant Princess; Sororiety Sue, yet she wanted different. She went to Law School and became a Lawyer. And guess what... she ended up with a gorgeous guy. What makes that film even greater is the fact that it's true! Sort of.
So I think that woman needs to wake up to the twenty first century a little and realise that girls can be intelligent and popular at the same time.