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Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 03:11:38 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter White writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Kevin Hall writes:

> > 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)

Same here with the garbage Pete....

Kev... : )



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  Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
 
(...) My NLSO did get excited when I told her you mentioned skirmish though ! pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> (26 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)

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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)

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