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A Mom's 8 Rules for Dating Her Daughters

Some time ago this t-shirt made the rounds of Facebook and Twitter, and met with general approval from the wild-eyed feminists I tend to hang out with:. Talk about being hostile and possessive. Though I totally agree with the doorbell thing. It all seems to amount to this, really:. Which is, of course why there are risks out here for young women who are dating or just trying to get a meeting with Bill Cosby. And my novel The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire demonstrates at least one of those risks fairly dramatically. She said WHAT?

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In many ways, my dad was a very traditional father. He was fairly conservative and stern at times. As a headstrong and independent man raising a headstrong and independent daughter, he and I butted heads on many occasions. Feminism is about equality.

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There's a weird stereotype when daughters start dating of the dad waiting by the door with a shotgun, joking about how he'll somehow maim her date if they usually he do anything that the dad deems disrespectful. This stereotype has morphed itself in the internet age to memes about the "rules" for dating my daughter. But one dad took a more empowering and feminist approach to this, and his post is going viral. Writer J.

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Yet Another Set of Rules for Dating Dad’s Daughter?!

Writer J. Warren Welch is raising five daughters in his blended family with wife Natasha. Over the years, he has seen and heard all the jokes, T-shirts, and memes about dads polishing shotguns while they wait for dates to pick up their daughters. He just doesn't think they are funny. Welch decided to make up his own "rules" for dating his daughters in a social media post.

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