Feminist books for five-year-olds

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-12-04 16:10

Article here. Excerpt:

'It all started with my son, Will, stamping his feet and saying he didn't want any girls invited to his sixth birthday party. Girls, he declared, are boring. At the same time I noticed my daughter, Vera, who is three, carrying a handbag and lip gloss. Will was demanding his first football kit, Vera was swooning over princess paraphernalia, and I suddenly realised that it was time for a gender stereotyping intervention.
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Can books redress the balance? We often read Captain Pugwash and Asterix – but there are no girls in those stories. I was happy with Babar until Celeste became pregnant with triplets and never came out of the nursery again. In Peepo the mother is always ironing. Of course, there are some successes for both boys and girls. Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline is a wonderful tale of convent girl derring-do, with lots of boy characters, too. Julia Donaldson's books (The Gruffalo, The Smartest Giant in Town) are great fun, but not exactly politically inspiring. I wanted to find something feminist, subversive. The Female Eunuch for five-year-olds.'

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We try our best to keep pedophiles away from children (well male pedophiles anyway), for fear their sickness may harm the child, we should treat feminists the same.

Attempting to force radical feminism on a child should be a capitol offense treated the same as raping a child. Totally disgusting

Why must women with hate in their hearts target the most defenseless?

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Submitted by Paragon on Sat, 2009-12-05 16:20

Read an article in the early 70s--Ms., Mother Jones, or some sh!t-- regarding a feminist mom's dismay that her firstborn was male ("I'm raising an oppressor!"). Her radical, single-mom friend laughingly related how she was raising her toddler son to hate and fear males. Now that's abuse!

Now you know where the Hugos and Ampersands come from.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Sat, 2009-12-05 23:51

No matter what is done, in the final analysis you can't fight genetics. It always finds a way.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2009-12-06 04:25

Viv Groskop is a child abuser.

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Submitted by Ragtime on Sun, 2009-12-06 21:51