Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Sexism on the road... a site dedicated to looking at what stereotypes are presented of children on traffic signs...
reminds me of when I started re-reading all my old favorite children books. First of all it always said "a boys book" in front of the title page and after that the only females depicted were mothers, spinster aunts, airhostesses, secretaries or girlfriends. Never a female scientist or a spy in any of those books. The most blatantly obvious exception from this are the Nancy Drew books ... , still all the girls looks are described to perfection, they request assistance when in difficulty and always gaze thankfully into the eyes of their beau(friends) ...

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