DS has just received a pair of board books from a relative. They're called "I Love My Mummy" and "I Love My Daddy" (from the same publisher), and having read them, I'm annoyed.
In "I Love My Mummy", the child loves his mummy because she makes his rubber duck go "quack" in the bath, she makes him yummy food to eat, she washes his muddy teddy and his pyjamas, and because she's his mummy.
In "I Love My Daddy", the child loves his daddy because he pushes him on his bicycle, he plays catch with a ball, he pretends to be a pirate captain, he makes the cuddly toys talk, and because he's his daddy.
Mummy's doing an awful lot of housework here - bathing the child, cooking the meals, doing the washing - while daddy's playing lots of fun games. This doesn't seem fair to me. Why can't they show mummy doing fun things with the child? Or daddy doing a bit of housework? It's blatent gender stereotyping. And immensely irritating.
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StormGlass · 23/08/2012 23:39
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