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November 10, 2005
Gender specific language; starting them young.
I was flicking through some catalogues and I stumbled across these magnetic words, essentially a great educational idea. What disturbs me is that they got away with releasing separate ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ talk. Yes you’ve guessed it boys get to learn to read and write infinitely more exciting sounding words as ‘conkers’ ‘grass’ ‘treehouse’ ‘mud’ ‘dirt’ and ‘climbing’
Whereas as a result of her gender my poor daughter would be lumbered with; ‘clothes’ ‘hair’ ‘fluff ’ (I kid you not!) ‘angel’ ‘sparkle’ and my particular favourite ‘cooking.’
Yep sorry Littleone I know which pack you’d prefer but it’s not really worth teaching you how to spell the word ‘climbing’ because it’s not like you are ever going to be doing any. Get thee to the kitchen and speak no more.
Posted by purple elephant at November 10, 2005 05:25 PM