So, I attend a regular nursery rhyme session at my local library and 'The Wheels on the Bus' now seems to comprise the above delight, together with the equally offensive "The Daddies on the bus go shush, shush, shush"
I'm really bristling at this example of everyday sexism. Yes, I am a mother, but I am also educated to Post Grad level and have a bunch of fairly heavyweight professional qualifications too. Prior to having DD, I held a senior position in a very male dominated field and really resent the implication that when a woman (who may or may not have children) speaks, it should be assumed that it is mere 'chatter'. I'm also really unhappy with the idea that a big manly man has to step in to shut up all these hysterically chattering women, otherwise where would the world be, eh? 
AIBU to take this up with the library/council? I just don't want DD to face the same constant battle that I did, to be taken seriously in life just because she's a woman. I think we owe it to the next generation to challenge this trivialisation of women's opinions.
AIBU?
"The Mummies on the Bus go chatter, chatter chatter" Really?
BespokeStereophonicVinyl · 20/04/2016 13:45
Its the Grannies on the bus that go shush, shush, shush here.
OP, if I am on the bus with someone I know - I would chat. Would you not? Sheesh
Even at 3 yrs old, my kids would have seen this for the silly tosh it is and we would have laughed about it together. I am very quiet and my husband is the talkative one. Nothing to do with level of education as we're both the same on that front.
My problem would be with the scanning -- it's all wrong, but I'm possibly over-sensitive to that. You need single-syllable words in place of "Mummies", "Daddies", and "chatter".
Maybe take that angle with the library? 
At the toddler group I used to take my DS to, the Mummies on the bus are on their laptops (which admittedly isn't all that likely a scenario on a bus, but 'The mummies on the bus are on their phones trying to arrange childcare to cover yet another late shift and why the hell isn't there state-provided, high--quality, universal childcare?' doesn't really scan).
The one in the neighbouring village sometimes had 'The Mummies on the bus are drinking gin' from some particularly knackered women.
I've heard loads of different versions of this. I always took exception to 'the babies on the bus go wah wah wah' because DD never did . When I sang it to DD I did 'the children in the bus go chatter chatter chatter'. But anyway, DD is now 6 and has forgotten about it altogether!
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The Mummies on the bus at DD2's creche alternated between going "knit knit knit" (at DD2's insistence as she knows I knit on the bus) "sleep sleep sleep" (her little friend) or "read read read" (same little friend).
I think the Daddies got left out a few times as some of the kids insisted that Daddies couldn't possibly get busses as they didn't know how
We make up our own versions at home. Mostly involving random animals.
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