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Usborne Puberty Book tells children that breasts exist to make milk and to make girls look grown up and attractive

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AssignedPerfectAtBirth · 30/08/2017 09:53

www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/29/usborne-apologises-puberty-book-childrens-publisher?CMP=share_btn_tw

Breasts are there for 1) milk 2) to make girls look grown up and attractive

Nice to know that our children are being taught that breasts are there to look at

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gillybeanz · 31/08/2017 23:26

breasts are there to be looked at though, otherwise men who like breasts are vilified and it's quite normal.
They aren't only there for milk, and they gave milk as the first example.

NewDaddie · 31/08/2017 23:22

I think the apology was swift and adequate.

Also the description of breasts in the book is actually correct with regard to physiology and anthropology. I think the revision for future prints will be a good thing overall for political reasons but it will technically be inaccurate.

If my dd (or future dc) ask me why women have breasts (as opposed to just nipples like men) I will tell them the truth about sexual selection or to put it simply women have breasts because men like them.

terrylene · 30/08/2017 12:52

The Usbourne book of Growing up used to be so full of sensible information and pictures (even if the labia were colour-coded zones) Sad

thatstoast · 30/08/2017 12:50

From a book called "Growing up for Boys". For Boys. I cry.

terrylene · 30/08/2017 12:50

But, it was a book for boys, telling them what breasts are for Hmm

And they haven't withdrawn it - just stopped printing any more.

SteelyTesticlesOfObjectivity · 30/08/2017 12:47

Yes but "no matter the size both things are true"Hmm so even if you have small breasts, don't despair, some boy out there will fancy you.

isthistoonosy · 30/08/2017 11:45

You could almost think they beleive this is true!

VestalVirgin · 30/08/2017 11:41

That's an empty apology. Clearly, they expected this to fly under the radar and that no one would notice. Cannot imagine that it is a genuine mistake. Books are read so many time before publication, how could they have missed this? It is not like a small typo, it is a whole sentence.

WillowWeeping · 30/08/2017 09:55

I think there was another thread on here about this (or on a Facebook group I'm in)

Happily Usborne have apologised:

www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/29/usborne-apologises-puberty-book-childrens-publisher

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