Is School House Rock Anti-Male?

	posted by D on Thursday August 14, @01:28PM from the Media-Messages dept.
	amperro writes "Remember the educational cartoon School House Rock? The one titled "Unpack Your Adjectives" goes like this: "Girls who are tall can get taller," (Girl grows) "Boys who are small can get smaller," (Boy shrinks) "Till one is the tallest" (Girl becomes giant while boy gets tiny) "And the other's the smallest of all." (Girl CRUSHES BOY WITH FOOT). We even teach children that violence against males is acceptable!"

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I remember this from the 70's (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday August 14, @08:07PM EST (#1) ...when I was a child. Even then, I thought it was an odd attack on boys. I never really "got it"It kind of made me mad at girls as I was told always to treat girls with respect. I wonder if this is how young boys today feel about all the un-natural depictions of the female super-hero archetypes beating the snot out of the badGUYS? I never liked "adjective" cartoon.

Re:I remember this from the 70's (Score:1) by Renegade on Thursday August 14, @09:53PM EST (#3) (User #1334 Info) "I wonder if this is how young boys today feel about all the un-natural depictions of the female super-hero archetypes beating the snot out of the badGUYS?" This is one of the reasons I like watching the animated show, Totally Spies. The 3 main young, female characters usually interact with males in a "favorable" way (read: they are depicted as actually *wanting* to date young men and be in the company of males) and about 1/4 - 1/3 of the villains are female. May not be 50/50, but at least the ratio is a LOT better than other "Hero/badguy" shows. Also, since the heroines are female, the female villainesses cannot use their "feminine charm" to get out of situations. R

Re:I remember this from the 70's (Score:1) by jimmyd on Thursday August 14, @11:07PM EST (#4) (User #1260 Info) Good points on that "Totally Spies" cartoon although I don't watch it [ annoying pop music as background noise] While on the subject of cartoons,I remeber watching a couple of episodes of Justice League [ a cartoon staring a group of dc comics characters] where the vilian was a rather bigoted amazon. being a normal gender feminist her goal was gendercide agianst men. the irony was the only reason she was alive was because a man saved her life when she was a child. as i remeber it wonder woman drowned her, or something like that.

Girls who are fat, get fatter. Boys who're smart.. (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday August 14, @08:24PM EST (#2) "Girls who are fat, get fatter. Boys who are smart, get smarter. Till one is the fattest. And the other's the smartest. Because he knew to push away his platter." Madcap Misogynist Madcap Misogynist Brave, courageous and bold. Long live his fame, and long live his glory. Long may his story be told.

Tax Dollars To Promote Misandry (Score:2) by Luek on Friday August 15, @05:02PM EST (#5) (User #358 Info) It is an outrage that tax dollars are being used to promote misandry in the school system with this garbage! This entire society seems to have adopted the persona of the femitwits: mindless insanity!

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