Sunday, December 5, 2010

Reptile Mister System

ARCHETYPES

¿Corruption minors?


by María Elena Walsh

" no prying questions.
prying are the answers."
Oscar Wilde

BARBIE GIRL OF 10 YEARS


live precepts and products consumed without question, for fear of indiscretion in the answers and because it is safer to incur to comply routines singularities. A clarification exercise would start with these discreet questions:

"We educate our children so that tomorrow (if any) are vacuous princesses jet-set? Do we educate for Heidis of drained forests? Do we educate for future courtesans? Do we educate for mental dwarfs and superfluous "fat ladies"?
This seems, at least in much of the blessed middle class in Argentina, given the absurd insistence that encourages narcissism and vanity of our girls and their participation in them obscures reality.
The baby usually enjoy an enviable amnesia to repeat the table of four with an equally enviable memory for details of the last chapter of this love affair with such champion powerboat or less gather the penultimate model Carolina Monaco when he left to catch butterflies in Taormina with her worthy husband.
consents and approvals to be manic chafalonía consuming, clothing, waste paper and all that, finally, fashion and do not represent truth. Consented to come to the more neurotically mirror that Snow White's stepmother, who is an expert in cosmetic, soap operas and advertising, which requires scrap imported or clogs fit impossible valor of trauma.
We are a finicky personality root-cutting because everything starts from birth, the sensitivity or the interest you could feel for the varied richness of the universe.
"It's the female instinct, say some psychologists carousel. That reminds me of an anecdote. The director of a company recorder was a busy day to check how many times the particular disc went on the radio.
- How good, how successful, how sweet, how to spread it all the time! , Applauded enthusiastically. And then he added -: Of course you have to see how much money we invest in the radial diffusion of this issue ...
We also programmed our girls as the eternal child who is the audience. We breathed them adult hobbies and interests, they subsidize the triviality and then attach the result to their biological constitution.
The toy, in separate windows, offering different toys for girls and boys. In the U.S., not many years ago were equally divided public places "for people of color" and "white." Divide and conquer!
to the girls only offer them-or-imposed domestic toys, furnishings, washing machines, cookers, vacuum cleaners, accessories or beauty salon.
If this is strengthening domestic propensities that carries forward from the cradle, why not also aimed at carpentry and plumbing? Does are not essential household activities? Yes, they are, but unpaid. Here's a candid response.
toys for boys circumvent the monotony and provide the full range of human possibilities and aliens: farms, light rail, robots, microscope, telescope, chemistry and electronics equipment, cars, puzzles and everything Finally, stimulates the mental faculties.
the girl do not like farm animals or trains? Do not dream of driving a car? Are not you curious about the microcosm or the space? How will you feel if other kinds of glass, the Great White Chief Sitting Bull!
Does the exercise of reason and imagination can take it to eventually withdraw from being a dependent child and limited free labor and ornamental character? The answer is very intrusive.
At home and school for the girl to repeat the most obvious and bland crafts, to mimic the maternal tasks ... practice and gossip about local clothing.
The girl lives surrounded by dubious archetypes and force them to emulate by buying the Wonder Woman tiara or any other wonder mantle female. No missing uncle who put their hands on a copy of "How to be beautiful and flirtatious," another mirror more or hundredth wrist.
few exceptions such as reports of Syria Poletti Jetsons, whose heroine is a small journalist, printed paper that frequents the baby, including reader-women shows that, the highest summit of intellect, are teachers. The others, apart from well-known fairies and witches, princesses or tamed always bloated housewives.
The girl knows, the magazines that eats like a lioness, which in this world there are more women working at various tasks, by necessity or desire. What is more serious and contradictory, they teach to overlook the fact that his own mother works out or studying, as if he were not a suitable model because of its eccentricity. Never seen, and if the finger was wet and turned the page, there are women workers, pilots, judges and statesmen. It is so greedy that the media space devoted to them, are busy promoting Miss So and the always memorable Cristina Onassis.
Educating for leisure, servitude and triviality, do not mean to corrupt the sacred power of the human being?
Fortunately, this creature dressed in pink (some would say, again confusing cause with effect, that the babies are born pink and boys in blue, when the livery business was invented by an Italian midwife, back in 1919), this creature, I say, is strong and rebellious, gifted with an extraordinary capacity for survival. The baby, in many cases, will deny manipulation and decide to be human. But who can measure the difficulty of the backward movement and the energy wasted in getting rid of so tilinguería adult?
While the small model odalisque prim, time passes and reaches the time of puberty. So adults are alarmed because the baby fuss scared by sex and starts early catastrophically high school. Ended the primaries as he could, including mirrors, soap operas, gossip and exhibitionism encouraged and approved, but he crossed puberty is criticized all this and starts to become worthy of the contempt that the banality inspire those who impose better and more expensive to sell.
The major lay the fuss because the baby shows no signs of going to become a Alfonsina Storni. That begins to carve the cultural prestige of excessive because it is another form of service to individual success, and flowers a belated suspicion that the baby was not reasonably educated. When the potatoes burn, those poor middle-class parents finally understand that Argentina is not Grace and Rainier and the land beneath their feet is not Disneyland.
Just then the scarecrow also appears on TV, that blame. Who she delegated tasks governess? The mediocrity of the TV does nothing but contribute to the mass production of clueless citizens.
is not revive monastic severity nor is devalue domestic work or concerns, better targeted, could be merely aesthetic. No Nor is moving from window to assume, for example, that the racing is more meritorious than the culinary arts, or kitsch more despicable than bullying.
Any human being must learn to reliance and cooperation in household work and care, if you want, how they look. What is serious is to convince the female creature that the world ends there.
It is understood that the girl has no option, which is induced compulsively frivolity and dependence, which is traditionally practiced brainwashed that prevents you from choosing another behavior and nurture other interests.
Frivolity is not a defect truculent style anathemas worthy Quaker or a Muslim. It is tricky to make someone believe that this is their only destination, incompatible with the use of intelligence. The worst is to confuse a spontaneous imitative play the mother with a fatality exclusion of other functions.
The baby is not allowed to form their personality freely: they all made it, and feral learners will reduce the brain and then convince her that he was born small. The practice instigate a wild cult appearances and neglect their own and diverse human wealth. The cut and paste and then blame because is a figurine. The educated, in short, to small of a world court settlement.
Is not that corruption of minors?


Clarín, Thursday April 5, 1979.
[Reproduced in Misadventures in the Country-Garden-of-Birth , Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1993. 44-47. Digital version prepared by Marina Herbst.]


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