In my blog post Naomi Margaret Mitchison, Scottish Novelist and Poet, on Her Father, I quoted Mitchison’s reminiscences of her father and how safe and loved she felt while “curled up on his lap.” I wrote:
“I think all of us hope our daughters will have the same type of memories of us.”
A feminist reader with the handle “Kishmir” responded, explaining how she thought our daughters will remember us:
“I doubt that your daughters will have the same kinds of memories of most of you as fathers. Your daughters will have memories of how you destroyed their relationships with their mothers, abuse their mothers, and believe women are inferior to men. Your daughters will grow up to believe that all men hate them as much as you do. Even worse, your daughters will come to believe that all men are as nasty, malicious and screwed up as you are…”
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