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"Mum goes viral for re-writing daughter's sexist homework"

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YoloSwaggins · 02/06/2017 11:29

I'm really sorry to be linking to the Daily Shite, but I read this:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4563880/Mom-goes-viral-rewriting-daughter-s-sexist-homework.html

And thought the original was shocking, the re-write was great, the mum is a great mum who is teaching her daughter equality, all is good.

Then I go into the comments, and jesus fucking christ. Reams upon reams of people basically saying women shouldn't work, it's in their biology to have kids, they should stay home till their kids are 18, women wanting kids and a career are selfish, working parents are the reason for mental disorders, etc etc.

This really upset me (as someone who had a working mum, loved the independence and after-school clubs, and couldn't be prouder of my mum in her amazing career).

Who are these cave-trolls in the DM comments?! Literally, I don't know anyone who actually has this attitude in 2017. Is it pensioners? Like, WHO believes these things?

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NoLoveofMine · 02/06/2017 11:54

couldn't be prouder of my mum in her amazing career

I'm the same. I try as best I can to avoid comments on articles such as this, they're invariably filled with misogynists (who seem to spend their days incessantly bombarding any feminist article with comments).

That the sheet itself was actually given out to children to complete is pretty worrying. Great to see this woman write her own far more appropriate version.

MotherOfBleach · 02/06/2017 11:43

The Daily Fail - where women on benefits are told to get to work, women at work are told to get back to the kitchen and their readers fail to see the irony in this.

ChocChocPorridge · 02/06/2017 11:33

Not to mention how what she'd re-written was too complicated for her kid. Of course it isn't. It was perfectly readable and was making a point that her daughter needs to hear.

All the little messages add up.

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YoloSwaggins · 02/06/2017 11:30

Also, it's clearly not in everyone's "biology", because I've never wanted kids and still don't - I can't think of anything worse than permanent responsibility.

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