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Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 03:35:40 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kevin Hall writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Peter White writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Kevin Hall writes:
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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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> Same here with the garbage Pete....
My NLSO did get excited when I told her you mentioned skirmish though !
pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>
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