Open Letter to Phillipa Morrish and the Home Reporter
Dear Phillipa Morrish,
You wrote an article for the local paper, The Home Reporter on how to teach our female teenagers how to pour tea. I’m not sure why this article would appear in my local news. Could I be the only woman in Bay Ridge who doesn’t want to take the time to teach my children how to PROPERLY pour tea? I could understand if someone was having a child’s tea party and I wanted to know how the English poured tea, but I don’t think the subject warrants space in a local paper.
Ms. Morrish, the feminist in me wants you to know that the article should read – ‘How to teach teenagers how to pour tea.’ The fact that you insist that a parents should teach a daughter and not a son is ludicrous. If your article is to teach manners, then it should include both males and females. I am all for teaching etiquette, but please be mindful that we are in the year 2013 and so many women pioneers have worked for our equality. Maybe in your home, you pour tea, but in my house everyone pours tea. We are equal opportunity tea pourers in this house (yes I realize that the word pourers isn’t part of the English language yet). Mrs. Morrish, I encourage you to have your husband learn the art of pouring tea because when he does, you will notice that tea tastes a lot better then when you pour it yourself!
And Home Reporter Editor, please edit the articles so they are appropriate for the neighbor and 2013.
Queenie
Hugs,
marlene
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