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12-year-old girl smacks down sexist announcer in LTE: (Original Post) tblue37 Aug 2021 OP
Good for her! PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2021 #1
+1000 usaf-vet Aug 2021 #11
Excellent LTE! sdfernando Aug 2021 #2
+ a brazillion! nt tblue37 Aug 2021 #3
She will go far because she's right lunatica Aug 2021 #4
K&r Demovictory9 Aug 2021 #5
HRC sent her a letter Mosby Aug 2021 #6
That is so cool! tblue37 Aug 2021 #8
WHACK! On target! Warpy Aug 2021 #7
Could be another RBG in the making. sarge43 Aug 2021 #25
Bright little girl! smirkymonkey Aug 2021 #9
Inappropriate! dickthegrouch Aug 2021 #13
What? Ok, young girl. smirkymonkey Aug 2021 #16
+1 North Shore Chicago Aug 2021 #18
Chesterland is east of Cleveland. NBachers Aug 2021 #10
This made my day. Notek Aug 2021 #12
Omg 12 year old Julianne thinks shes a Cancel Culture warrior General. Volaris Aug 2021 #14
I love it. She's about the age I was when I started writing to my local paper... Hekate Aug 2021 #15
Letter to the editor. whistler162 Aug 2021 #17
Thank you. quaint Aug 2021 #19
Which is perhaps why she is so literate. tblue37 Aug 2021 #21
Replied to the wrong person. See my post #21 below yours. tblue37 Aug 2021 #22
Ms. Speyer North Shore Chicago Aug 2021 #20
12, you say? BobTheSubgenius Aug 2021 #23
You go, Sister Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #24
Gotta say, I was a Boy Scout for years, and I never led anything. malthaussen Aug 2021 #26
BRAVA to this amazing young person. Welcome to the fight, young sister. You give me niyad Aug 2021 #27
Sure. tblue37 Aug 2021 #28
Done. tblue37 Aug 2021 #29
I'm feeling empowered Deuxcents Aug 2021 #30

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. She will go far because she's right
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 08:17 PM
Aug 2021

That letter was well written with a winning argument which is persuasive and well presented.

Warpy

(114,359 posts)
7. WHACK! On target!
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 10:07 PM
Aug 2021

I wish I could be around to see who she turns into in about 30 years.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
16. What? Ok, young girl.
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 01:09 AM
Aug 2021

She's the age of my youngest nieces and I see them as little girls. What would you have called her? A young woman?

She's 12. She is still a girl.

Volaris

(11,342 posts)
14. Omg 12 year old Julianne thinks shes a Cancel Culture warrior General.
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 12:32 AM
Aug 2021

Whatever will we do?
I blame the PARENTS, how DARE THEY let this girl-child think for herself?!?!?!

Hekate

(100,131 posts)
15. I love it. She's about the age I was when I started writing to my local paper...
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 12:52 AM
Aug 2021

It’s really fun to enter the world of grown-ups like that.

North Shore Chicago

(4,208 posts)
20. Ms. Speyer
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 08:54 AM
Aug 2021

has a mature grip already for the English language. She will be a positive force in the future.

malthaussen

(18,373 posts)
26. Gotta say, I was a Boy Scout for years, and I never led anything.
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 11:17 AM
Aug 2021

The young lady is polite, so she won't use the word "bullshit." So I'll use it for her.

-- Mal

niyad

(129,313 posts)
27. BRAVA to this amazing young person. Welcome to the fight, young sister. You give me
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 11:19 AM
Aug 2021

hope for our future.

And, of course Madam President Clinton would respond.

Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

Deuxcents

(25,314 posts)
30. I'm feeling empowered
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 06:47 PM
Aug 2021

By this post. Julianne just made my day. No one can say we’ve seen our better days b/c this tells me the best time s yet to come. Welcome to the good fight, Julianne.

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