# Does this statement about young girls strike you as odd? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-statement-about-young-girls-strike-you-as-odd/525053 "2010-01-15T07:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-statement-about-young-girls-strike-you-as-odd/525053/60 "2010-01-15T19:43:25Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’m not saying it’s malicious or misogynist, or that these dads think girls are less awesome than boys. On the contrary, they’d probably say their daughters kick ass, and they love them more than anything in the world, and that’s \*why \*they make the jokes about the baseball bats: it’s their way of saying they’d do anything to protect them. That’s sweet and wonderful. But surely they also love their sons, right? And would do anything to protect them, too? Then why no jokes about \*their \*dates? The only conclusion I can come to is that they feel their sons don’t really need to be protected in the same way. Because the number of girls that can benchpress 200 lbs are few and far between. Because Dads don’t like the thought of their girls becoming sexual things. Because the libido of teenage boys is legend and outstrips the development of their brains by several years. Because fear is a powerful motivator. You understand that these are all blanket statements and as such aren’t worth much. They have to protect the girls FROM the boys. THATS why it’s stated that way. It does not, in any way, acknowledge that girls have raging hormones, too. OR that they might initiate something that would scar their Daddy’s impression of them, or a host of other loaded things. Doesn’t make it right, doesn’t make it wrong. It just is. And frankly, with single parents, joint custody, Bobby’s got two mothers, I wonder if it’s really a standard thing anymore. I reserve the right to sit down with my Boys and say: “You sully her reputation and it’s not HER FATHER you need to worry about.” Would that help even things out? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-statement-about-young-girls-strike-you-as-odd/525053)._