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Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:52:47 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kevin Hall writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
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> > > As to the 'sexist' text....I'm not sure if this is correct, but from my • own
> > > observation, boys seem to have a fascination for mechanical devices
> > > [including vehicles] and like to use tools like their Father's do, whereas
> > > girls in general don't seem to be interested in this.
> >
> > So says a man :-) Unless you are on the receiving end of sexism, you
> > probably don't notice it as much. I'm on the receiving end a lot, and so I
> > am somewhat hyper-sensitive. For example, mail and e-mail sent to me by
> > strangers is invariably addressed "Dear Sir". I have people walk into my
> > office and ask to speak to Dr Raymond, assuming that I am *his* secretary.
> > People who arrange to meet me walk right past me even if I am the only
> > person at the appointed meeting place, etc. OK, individually each of these
> > things is no big deal in itself, but consider the cumulative effects on many
> > little "sexist" experiences on a developing and very impressionable young
> > child.
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> > In own observation and experience, girls don't get much opportunity or
> > encouragement in developing their technical interests. It's one of those
> > chicken-and-egg situations. If you look at the gifts people buy for young
> > children, you will see that they buy different toys for girls and boys. Long
> > before the children themselves are probably capable of expressing
> > preference, they are being "taught" to be girls or boys by adults who are
> > already "programmed".
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> > Do a young girl a favour? Buy her a Mybot or one of those other "boys toys"!
> > Be the person who makes the difference in her life!
> >
> > Kerry
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> Well I introduced my wife....who is 25....to the Bellvile Lego the other day
> in the shops, she hated it....in her words..."It's too girly".... she'd love
> this new stuff, and as for little kids copying their parents, when we
> eventually have kids, if they copy Mum, they will be fixing and building
> things, if they copy Dad, they'll be doing Arty farty stuff...TIMES ARE
> CHANGING....!!!!
When I did 18 months of the Bachelor of Nursing course at UTS, people would
always ask "why are you doing nursing" (not staff or students).
My mother-in-law thinks it strange that I do all the cooking.
We have bought my 2yo son a doll and his female 3yo cousin toy trucks and
will continue to do so.
I bought two of the Duplo Easter Eggs (1 car, 1 pram). His cousin got to
choose, she chose the pram.
It's getting to that nature v nurture argument again.
But my son still builds guns out of Duplo blocks and points them at me,
so as to what's hard-coded and what's not we'll never know.
pete.w (who still gets stuck putting the garbage out)
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| (...) My husband does all the cooking at our house too. I am a lousy cook, he's a very good cook so it makes sense, although only to us it seems. In fact when I was still working we split all the household chores 50/50 including baby care. Since (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Well I introduced my wife....who is 25....to the Bellvile Lego the other day in the shops, she hated it....in her words..."It's too girly".... she'd love this new stuff, and as for little kids copying their parents, when we eventually have (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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