Question for my Feminist (and -ism) Friends

The other night, I went to see a few friends give a belly-dancing performance. At the request of one of them, I captured their performance on video via my family's digital camera. The video's still on the camera for playback. About half an hour ago, my mother took the camera in a desire to photograph Dinah the dog wearing a sweater intended for a human baby. I mentioned the video to her. She scrolled to it. Almost immediately, she said something along the lines of the following:

"Well, she's a bit big to be doing belly-dancing, isn't she?"

That's my mother.

So I'm curious now about my network of cyber-friends who might well be full-out infuriated by that sentiment. What are/were your parents like? Did they bring you up as you are, or did you evolve independently from roots in — words elude me here — dubious mindsets, as I seem to have done?

Headline that I, for one, would have thought twice about

Senator Kennedy, liberal giant, buried

—Reuters

Phrase heard in local car dealer ad

"...brand new used car..."

Real Headline, No. 1

12-year-old chef makes a great burger

(from the MSN front page)

"Everything's fine except for your table."

The words of a restaurant worker to a waitress at a restaurant where I was the only diner left by that time of the weekday evening.

Comforting, eh?