Porter: Raising brave princesses in a Disneyfied world

I took my 3-year-old, Lyla, to a Halloween party this weekend. Every mother in the room was a daughter of the feminist generation, which fought for nice things like pay equity and maternity leave. So why do we let our daughters dress up like 1950s housewives-in-the-making?

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