Some children’s books

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namechange10022002 · 27/10/2022 00:23

So today I went to the only bookshop in my town looking for some books for my kids and I was quite dismayed to see how many books about gender ideology there were in the (very small) kids’ section.

The content was as I expected. Your body is not important, it’s how you feel inside that counts. There was also stuff like “Some boys like to play with girls’ toys. Should they be made to feel bad for it? No!” Which I totally agree with. But then going to suggest they are not “real” boys and must therefore be girls.

I despair. My kids start school next year and I have no idea how I’m going to steer them through all the regressive gender bullshit they’ll inevitably be taught.

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PriOn1 · 27/10/2022 04:43

The publishing industry, and particularly children’s and teen books are completely captured. It’s full of youngish, privileged women, who are not only on board with transactivism, but are actively looking for transactivist books and authors. It’s interesting, because I can imagine teens and tweens buying that stuff, but it would astonish me if parents of toddlers bought them in large numbers. If librarians buy them, I guess they’ll be getting those sales. I only hope that, with the changing scenery within medicine, this will pass sooner rather than later.

GeriSignfeld · 27/10/2022 03:53

Your body is not important? Wow that's quite the message to teach children.

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namechange10022002 · 27/10/2022 03:28

There were also board books about White Privilege which to me is just baffling. My kids aren’t even aware of race yet (and we are a very mixed family). I feel like it’s better not to make a thing of it unless they ask about it.

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MangyInseam · 27/10/2022 02:48

And when I first saw many of them advertised, I thought they were jokes, that people would get for adults as gag gifts. Apparently not.

MangyInseam · 27/10/2022 02:47

There are a ton of books now for very small kids with bizarre topics, totally developmentally inappropriate.

I mean at the board book level.

Libraries buy them because they think it counts in some sense towards inclusivity.

avamiah · 27/10/2022 01:54

My daughter is 12 now but i always remember her first books and they were the “MR Men” books and “Little Misses” books.

The books are just amazing.

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namechange10022002 · 27/10/2022 01:34

No it’s not a chain. It’s just annoying that kids are exposed to so much of this stuff.

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Lisagreen12 · 27/10/2022 00:33

I wouldn’t be happy about that. Was it a chain store?

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