Just watched the Barbie film with my 13-yo DD. Crikey, wasn't expecting the result. That impassioned and, let's be honest, spot-on speech by America Ferrera about what it is to be a woman? Opened the floodgates with DD, out it all came about kids at school: things mean girls say, how boys are, pressure to look nice, carry the right bag (but whatever you do don't "copy" anyone), you can easily guess the rest. She's now saying she dreads growing up to be a woman. I've tried to reassure her that it's not all terrible, and have tried to point up all the positive messages in the film, but I don't want to lie and pretend womanhood's not a crock of shite sometimes! She has also been watching me juggling work, elderly dad with dementia and my incipient menopause with varying degrees of failure while DH seems to float effortlessly through life (he's spent the afternoon in the pub and is now holed up in the spare room with a beer and the snooker, oblivious to all this), so I'm not a great example of how great it is to be a female grown-up right now. Anyone had a similar reaction, and any tips on what to say?!