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"Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" book

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SirVixofVixHall · 18/05/2017 20:17

A friend has just bought this for my daughter's 10th birthday....She was happily reading the "stories of 100 heroic women". Then she says "Mama there is a BOY in here". There is a boy in there. A boy who has done nothing heroic in his short life, but "love dresses, the color pink, and shiney shoes".Oh and his parents managed to convince a judge that he should use the "bathroom of his choice" which was the girls. Hmm
Then his parents threw a party. Probably involving lots of pink and sparkle. And this is supposed to inspire young girls, as much as Jane Austen, Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale and Helen Keller, who are some of the other "100 heroic women".
Dd is outraged and I am furious. This is gaslighting girls, and a prime example of the patriarchy in action- to get in this list as a woman you could write a novel that has lasted for 200 years, you could stand up to racists, you could be a suffragette. To get in as a male? Oh just like pink and insist on using the girls loos. Angry Angry

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MrsGWay · 18/05/2017 20:38

My daughter got this and I got to that page and put it away. I have decided not to stick the pages together as it might come in handy in future. Hopefully when this insanity has passed........

BillStickersIsInnocent · 18/05/2017 20:35

Ha my H nearly did that too when he saw it!

SirVixofVixHall · 18/05/2017 20:34

I don't know whether rip it out or deface it. Grrrrr

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BreadAndChipsPlease · 18/05/2017 20:29

I ripped this page out!

BillStickersIsInnocent · 18/05/2017 20:28

Yes I was bemused at this inclusion too. The rest of the book is great though. But this does rather undermine it.

M0stlyBowlingHedgehog · 18/05/2017 20:28

Yes, I noticed this when I leafed through it at a friend's house. Amazon does seem to have rather a lot of one star reviews drawing attention to it, so there are a lot of people pissed off about this one.

joolspoon · 18/05/2017 20:28

Mmm that's really weird?