Success

Speaking of Dr. Antsy, I was recently reminded of a conversation I had with Jacob months and months ago.  We were laying in the bottom bunk and I was trying to give him advice of some kind or another (I have no idea about what… I’m hoping to get through to him while he’s still young and impressionable).  Anyway, to add some level of credibility and weight to my argument, I told him I’d read this piece of advice and that a doctor had written it (this was true, really).

Some way or another I said the doctor was a he.

“What?  He?  Mama, doctors can’t be mans.”  (He left the “Silly Mama” off the end, but he totally meant it.)

“Huh?  You think doctors can’t be men?”

“Doctors are ga-wols.”

“Because Doc McStuppins is a girl?”  Doc McStuffins is a cartoon about a little girl who takes care of her sick stuffed animals and whose mom is a doctor.  “And because Dr. Antsy is a girl?”

“Yeah.  Doctors are ga-wols.”

How could I argue with that?  I just finished Sheryl Sandberg’s latest book, Lean In.  If you don’t know, she’s the COO of Facebook and basically Silicon Valley royalty.  Her book is a bit of a modern-day feminist manifesto.

I think Sheryl would like this story…  I know I do.