Hobson's Choice
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Fairies
All right, team! Are you ready? Are you ready to mobilize for... for...
FAIRIES!
Yes, fairies (the supernatural ones, not the pejorative homosexual kind).
We are beginning a campaign here on 15th Street to promote fairies. Elves, too. Whatever.
The point is: not princesses. Fairies, not princesses.
Chris and I have been so good. We have accepted the pink incursion. I think we both even like pink now; we love to see our little girl dressed in pink. We love to talk about pink. When we see pink, we think about how much Eleanor will love it.
Eleanor is a person; she has a right to her own interests, and we have a responsibility to promote and show an interest in her passions just as we do for each other. Am I fascinated by Don West and Jesse Stuart? Not really. Does Chris adore mystery novels? Not at all. But we are interested on the other's behalf. And so on for Eleanor and her interests... But... but...
We cannot do the Disney princesses. We just can't. Rapunzel and what's-her-name spinning corn into gold are the only princesses worth having as role models, and they are not Disney princesses.
But we are also not stupid; we know that to express our disdain for the Disney princesses is to lose our campaign before it even starts.
So we are not campaigning against the princesses. We are slinging no mud. We are not prohibiting their presence in our home. We are taking the high road.
We are merely campaigning FOR fairies. We're going to pretend to see them everywhere; we're going to read fairy tales; we're going to have fairy tea parties. Eleanor is getting a tiny fairy puppet for Valentine's day. I'm going to make little fairy sculptures out of sculpey for our garden. And please, Big Lots, don't fail me now! Find some fairy lots somewhere and get them on our shelves!
So, okay, team, let's pretend we're Bushies and get some talking points. It works for them. Just stay on message, people. Do not veer. Fairies, fairies, fairies. We're promoting fairies. Fairies are cool; fairies are interesting; fairies make the world a safer place; fairies are not associated in any way with WMD. Fairies...
12:47 p.m. - 2006-01-29
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