Girl Crushes Gender Norms With Her Costume For School Medieval Feast, Inspired By Her Historian Dad
These days we can notice more and more children ditching outdated gender norms and conventions. TV historian Dan Snow shared such an event on Twitter.
His 7-year-old daughter was preparing for a “medieval feast” held by her school. Most of the other children chose a typical attire accustomed to their gender roles; boys went as knights and girls dressed as princesses. But Dan’s daughter Zia had a better costume idea. She went to the event dressed as a badass Viking fleet commander “The Red Girl”.
Not only was Zia turning heads at the “medieval feast” with her Viking costume she also shared an important historical fact with everyone. Snow taught the curious and brave girl that there were many female warriors who fought in the 10th century, but somehow this fact often gets overlooked.
Dan Snow was praised for encouraging her daughter to defy gender stereotypes and teaching her about powerful and important women in history.
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Dan Snow’s 7-year-old daughter was preparing for a “medieval feast” held by her school
Image credits: Dan Snow
Most of the other children chose a typical attire, boys went as knights and girls dressed as princesses
Image credits: Dan Snow
But Dan’s daughter Zia had a much better idea
Dan was praised for encouraging her daughter to defy gender norms and teaching her about powerful women in history
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Share on FacebookQueens and princesses can be bada** too, any number of historical figures who have lead armies on their own or as regents. Most people with daughters I hope realize that girls, like boys, do what they want to do, which in my house is often dressing like a princess and wielding a sword at the same time.
When my oldest daughter was in preschool, she got in trouble for 'fencing' with a fork in the cafeteria. I had another parent as me if Highlander:The Series was an appropriate show for a child to watch, due to the "violence" in it. I was a SAHM (she assumed I was an uneducated idiot instead of wearing several hats, including wife, mom, equal partner in business--I handld the books & contract work). Just told her that we watched it as a family as we thought it had a number of good lessons including looking out for those weaker/standing up to bullies; being kind. Just because warriors stand up & do what others will not does not mean that they don't hurt, second guess themselves or agonize over a decision, even when it is the right decision. I then gathered up my daughter & walked away. The cafeteria ladies & crossing guards thought it was hilarious. PS: she "won"
Load More Replies...What a BS story. "Empowerment"? Nobody said she can't be whatever she wanted to be except her parents.
Empowering young girls is awesome! I would wish that it would be also ok and supported if the boys wanted to be something else than knights and other boy-stereotypes. But still a boy in a princess costume would be laughed at while the girly-knight is hailed. My nephew just made this depressing experience while all the girls were told to be stereotype-free... :-/
So a girl dresses like a tomboy for a SCHOOL PARTY and she's "crushing" gender roles? Gawd society latches on the dumbest things and makes a huge f*****g deal. Let me know when men can get pregnant then we'll talk about gender equality. Until then, fighting two million plus years of biological evolution is just plain stupid. Better to bask in the glory of uniqueness then lust after the boringness of being all alike.
So by worshipping male traits you are teaching about equality... okay. So teach girls to identify and worship women who pillage and murder because when women do it... they are strong and when men do it they are animals. Double standard much. How about we teach our daughters to worship women who are kind, compassionate, gentle, smart etc.
We’ll do that when we worship men who are gentle and smart and kind. I agree that respecting violent figures is questionable, but a lot of smart and nice men are not respected, but made fun of. Therefore respecting just women who are gentle and quiet is enforcing gender roles.
Load More Replies...Bad a*s women don't have to be violent warriors. They can still be ladies. Eleanor Roosevelt springs to mind. Marie Currie. Valentina Tereshkova. Amelia Earhart . The women firefighters at Pearl Harbor. the list goes on
This is dumb. Well not the article but the title. There are no more 'Gender Norms' in the world, especially in schools. Great you dressed your kid up but don't pretend it's anything more than an idiot trying to seem better than the rest of us.
This is great, but does anyone else see something suspicious. A man named Snow and a woman in red taking on a medieval like environment? It's like real life Westeros.
yeah man! i saw that two and thought this was a click bait...
Load More Replies...When I was a wee girl, I was in love with the Redwall series. And the villains had all the best costumes, not to mention the armies/fleets of ships. Not one teacher or child batted an eyelash when I turned up as insane rat Pirate King Gabool the Wild or bloodthirsty Wildcat Warlord Ungatt Trunn. My mum sewed them all(because what shop sells child-sized rat costumes?) and my dad made all of the weapons and armour. They had great fun as well.
This story is AMAZING!!!! Great job. This makes me think of the Tortall series by Tamora Pierce (are there any fans out there?)
There we go with the BS of gender bender, smh....it is all in your heads only, like society is scare of powerful women! Give me a f.... break, there has been a lot of powerful women through out history and we were fine. Now all of a sudden, we are mean and oppressors of females. And do not get me started with "all" the other genders, hint: There were always only two genders, shhhhhh.
Nope, in tribal history there were more than two genders and pronouns, even animals in the animal kingdom have a trans spectrum. Also when woman were powerful men did everything they could to break them and shut them up. Please check your facts before you say stuff on the internet for the world to see 😁
Load More Replies...First we were exposed to lgbt propaganda, then this BS gender crushing !!!!!!!! Can someone explane to me - WHY ? Why just we can not stay normal if we want ? Soon we would must go to parades and s**t ? Or there would be no humans on the Earth ? Maybe She - the Great Mother needs some rest of us ... I suppose
a) Again? Your 'facts' are wrong. 1. The amazons were a part of Greek mythology, not Roman. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons) 2. How many exceptions are there? This only a list of ancient history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_warfare 3. Margaret Mead was an anthropologist in 1925. She left New York to study the culture of the people of Samoa,(she also studied many other cultures.) She described a tribe in New Guinea where woman were politically dominant, and another where women and men took equal rolls child-rearing. She came to conclude that gender differences were a product not of biology but of culture. She wrote "Personality differences between the sexes are cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831750-400-the-original-social-justice-warrior-who-smashed-stereotypes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead
Load More Replies...Princess Isabella of France...She-Wolf? Princess Chiomara- Rome,. To name two. There are a LOT of badass princesses in every culture.
Load More Replies...Queens and princesses can be bada** too, any number of historical figures who have lead armies on their own or as regents. Most people with daughters I hope realize that girls, like boys, do what they want to do, which in my house is often dressing like a princess and wielding a sword at the same time.
When my oldest daughter was in preschool, she got in trouble for 'fencing' with a fork in the cafeteria. I had another parent as me if Highlander:The Series was an appropriate show for a child to watch, due to the "violence" in it. I was a SAHM (she assumed I was an uneducated idiot instead of wearing several hats, including wife, mom, equal partner in business--I handld the books & contract work). Just told her that we watched it as a family as we thought it had a number of good lessons including looking out for those weaker/standing up to bullies; being kind. Just because warriors stand up & do what others will not does not mean that they don't hurt, second guess themselves or agonize over a decision, even when it is the right decision. I then gathered up my daughter & walked away. The cafeteria ladies & crossing guards thought it was hilarious. PS: she "won"
Load More Replies...What a BS story. "Empowerment"? Nobody said she can't be whatever she wanted to be except her parents.
Empowering young girls is awesome! I would wish that it would be also ok and supported if the boys wanted to be something else than knights and other boy-stereotypes. But still a boy in a princess costume would be laughed at while the girly-knight is hailed. My nephew just made this depressing experience while all the girls were told to be stereotype-free... :-/
So a girl dresses like a tomboy for a SCHOOL PARTY and she's "crushing" gender roles? Gawd society latches on the dumbest things and makes a huge f*****g deal. Let me know when men can get pregnant then we'll talk about gender equality. Until then, fighting two million plus years of biological evolution is just plain stupid. Better to bask in the glory of uniqueness then lust after the boringness of being all alike.
So by worshipping male traits you are teaching about equality... okay. So teach girls to identify and worship women who pillage and murder because when women do it... they are strong and when men do it they are animals. Double standard much. How about we teach our daughters to worship women who are kind, compassionate, gentle, smart etc.
We’ll do that when we worship men who are gentle and smart and kind. I agree that respecting violent figures is questionable, but a lot of smart and nice men are not respected, but made fun of. Therefore respecting just women who are gentle and quiet is enforcing gender roles.
Load More Replies...Bad a*s women don't have to be violent warriors. They can still be ladies. Eleanor Roosevelt springs to mind. Marie Currie. Valentina Tereshkova. Amelia Earhart . The women firefighters at Pearl Harbor. the list goes on
This is dumb. Well not the article but the title. There are no more 'Gender Norms' in the world, especially in schools. Great you dressed your kid up but don't pretend it's anything more than an idiot trying to seem better than the rest of us.
This is great, but does anyone else see something suspicious. A man named Snow and a woman in red taking on a medieval like environment? It's like real life Westeros.
yeah man! i saw that two and thought this was a click bait...
Load More Replies...When I was a wee girl, I was in love with the Redwall series. And the villains had all the best costumes, not to mention the armies/fleets of ships. Not one teacher or child batted an eyelash when I turned up as insane rat Pirate King Gabool the Wild or bloodthirsty Wildcat Warlord Ungatt Trunn. My mum sewed them all(because what shop sells child-sized rat costumes?) and my dad made all of the weapons and armour. They had great fun as well.
This story is AMAZING!!!! Great job. This makes me think of the Tortall series by Tamora Pierce (are there any fans out there?)
There we go with the BS of gender bender, smh....it is all in your heads only, like society is scare of powerful women! Give me a f.... break, there has been a lot of powerful women through out history and we were fine. Now all of a sudden, we are mean and oppressors of females. And do not get me started with "all" the other genders, hint: There were always only two genders, shhhhhh.
Nope, in tribal history there were more than two genders and pronouns, even animals in the animal kingdom have a trans spectrum. Also when woman were powerful men did everything they could to break them and shut them up. Please check your facts before you say stuff on the internet for the world to see 😁
Load More Replies...First we were exposed to lgbt propaganda, then this BS gender crushing !!!!!!!! Can someone explane to me - WHY ? Why just we can not stay normal if we want ? Soon we would must go to parades and s**t ? Or there would be no humans on the Earth ? Maybe She - the Great Mother needs some rest of us ... I suppose
a) Again? Your 'facts' are wrong. 1. The amazons were a part of Greek mythology, not Roman. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons) 2. How many exceptions are there? This only a list of ancient history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_warfare 3. Margaret Mead was an anthropologist in 1925. She left New York to study the culture of the people of Samoa,(she also studied many other cultures.) She described a tribe in New Guinea where woman were politically dominant, and another where women and men took equal rolls child-rearing. She came to conclude that gender differences were a product not of biology but of culture. She wrote "Personality differences between the sexes are cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831750-400-the-original-social-justice-warrior-who-smashed-stereotypes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead
Load More Replies...Princess Isabella of France...She-Wolf? Princess Chiomara- Rome,. To name two. There are a LOT of badass princesses in every culture.
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