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NO BOYS ALLOWED: Mom Wants ‘Girls-Only Time’ At Public Playground

Ashe Schow

Some of the worst examples of humanity can be found in questions to advice columnists. Thankfully, The Washington Post’s Carolyn Hax didn’t support the outrageous and oppressing feminism of the mother who asked how she could keep a little boy off a public playground. You know, to destroy the patriarchy or whatever.

“Playground Drama,” as the anonymous advice-seeker was described, told Hax about a group of moms with daughters who gather at a local playground at the same time each week. There’s no designated “girl time” or “boy time” at the playground and apparently no way to rent the park for any specific park. Yet this mom decided this was her time and that no boys should be allowed.

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