If this guy is right then why do I have a moustache?
Apparently wishing that people would not treat women any differently in school or work than men merits the label of 'feminist' or the more endearing 'feminazi' but when I see books like The Wonder of Girls it makes my blood boil since it, once again, returns to the gender stereotypes so programmed into the brain by western civilisation. USA Today had a small article about the book, no doubt to drum up publicity, which is no more repellent than The Rules since both send the same message that girls should do everything they can to get a man to marry them, start having babies and not have other expectations in life since that's not in your hormonal programming. I guess someone forgot to tell the Navajo and other matriarchal cultures.
I'd rather see books for how to keep your kid from taking a gun to school or how to recognise if your kid is making bombs in their bedroom since that seems more pressing than telling girls what they should be instead of letting them be whatever they want to be.
permalink Ω 15 January 2002, Helsinki






