"every day at how strongly girls are encouraged to be submissive, or even just plain stupid" Yup, I agree with that. My daughter discovered Xena a few years ag

"every day at how strongly girls are encouraged to be submissive, or even just plain stupid" Yup, I agree with that. My daughter discovered Xena a few years ago, then Buffy, so she doesn't fit the submissive, stupid mold at all :-) Good role models, AFAIC. There's no TV and I've always taught them to be suspicious of advertising, so that helps. But, let's face it, we all fit some kind of cultural expectations even when we don't want to.