Miss Verity has been musing lately on the way people raise their daughters, and more particularly on the problems inherent in trying to bring up a sensible, modest, self-aware and self-controlled young lady in a culture that lauds the sloppy, the rude, the disorganized, and the promiscuous. It’s not that she believes in imposing choices [...]
Archive for November, 2010
A sweet, old-fashioned girl
Posted in children, femininity on November 18, 2010 |
Oh, enough, already.
Posted in manners on November 1, 2010 |
Miss Verity is well aware that she shouldn’t dignify this by commenting on it. More than enough people have commented already, heaven knows. But it’s difficult to be online at all without tripping over all the latest from Mr. Stephen Fry, and his latest latest–a series of inane comments about women, and then a petulant [...]
