Feminism has ruined "guess who" for me

I don't think this is an idiotic issue. Ok it's obviously not as important as FGM or education for girls in Afghanistan or equal pay or whatever but why can we only talk about the most important issues and nothing else? In all other topic areas, it's ok to discuss a range of issues, from the very serious to the utterly trivial.

Things like children's games are all part of the subtle message that boys and girls get as they grow up that somehow males are more mainstream than females, that they are the default. This leads to so many results, including girls not thinking certain professions or roles are for them or girls seeing themselves as less important than boys.

Danielle, it's he small things that slowly chip away at children's perceptions of gender and their place in society as they grow up. These 'small' issues are not unrelated to the more important issues relating to gender equality.

You can print off more sheets online apparently but no idea if they are less sexist.

I'm sorry but I am tired of feminist issues always end being some idiotic issue about how there were more males than females in a board game or deck of cards. This is ridiculous. Can we PLEASE find something more pressing to complain about?

This cropped up a couple of years ago, when a 6 year old wrote to Hasbro to complain.

Hasbro came back with a classic response to explain that 'female' is a characteristic, like blue eyed, and so there couldn't be too many characters with the same characteristic or it would make the game too easy. Male is not, you see, a characteristic but rather a default state of being. (They didn't actually say that, I should add, I am merely interpreting their response).

I can always remember noticing as a child the lack of female characters. We rarely chose those as it was too easy for the other person to guess. Likewise characters with blue eyes. We have an updated version, I'll have a look at it later.

Yep, it's still the same. I presume the reason is that it makes it harder to wipe out half the board with a single question ('Is yours a woman?'), but that's a pants reason, especially when anyone with an ounce of imagination can come up with a question that has the same effect ('Does yours have facial hair?' is a favourite opener in our house!)

It is still as sexist.
Dd2 got it for Christmas from my aunt, and there is a "people" version, with 7 women and 13 men, but there's also an "animals" version. The problem with the animals version is that it can be difficult to identify what sort of animal is in the picture. I think you can get themed versions, which would possibly be a bit less sexist.