Hi Im new to the whole feminism thing - but I have a 4mo daughter and suddenly feel a tremendous pressure to let her grow up to be a person first and female somewhere a long long way down the list.
So I noticed all her books are gender specific, mostly completely unnecessarily. We have Sammy snail who goes on an adventure until he finds susie snail who has been waiting at home for him. We have something about monkeys in which again the protaganist is male. Thats not my pirate, in which the guys have scarfs, hats, eyepatches, cutlasses and beards and the token female pirate has a silky shirt. Even the hungry catepillar is male (although turning into a beautiful butterfly is not exactly a stereotypically male thing to do!).
So am I being over sensitive or does this stuff make a difference added up over the years?
Its not like I want feminist childrens books, just books where the person in driving the truck is equally likely to be male or female, as is the child playing house....
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