"The Mummies on the Bus go chatter, chatter chatter" Really?

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So, I attend a regular nursery rhyme session at my local library and 'The Wheels on the Bus' now seems to comprise the above delight, together with the equally offensive "The Daddies on the bus go shush, shush, shush"

I'm really bristling at this example of everyday sexism. Yes, I am a mother, but I am also educated to Post Grad level and have a bunch of fairly heavyweight professional qualifications too. Prior to having DD, I held a senior position in a very male dominated field and really resent the implication that when a woman (who may or may not have children) speaks, it should be assumed that it is mere 'chatter'. I'm also really unhappy with the idea that a big manly man has to step in to shut up all these hysterically chattering women, otherwise where would the world be, eh?

AIBU to take this up with the library/council? I just don't want DD to face the same constant battle that I did, to be taken seriously in life just because she's a woman. I think we owe it to the next generation to challenge this trivialisation of women's opinions.

Because that isn't what it imply's Buffy.

I'm with you umbongo

Won't touch feminist chat with a ten foot pole if this thread is any indication on how little it takes to work themselves into a frenzy

I think it depends if you apply that implication or not Buffy. A lot of us don't.

The women on the bus were talking informally, The babies were crying and you know what, then men bent down and shhhed them, getting them to settle.

Yeah....

"Informal talk" isn't sexist at all.

I think it's sort of sad that mums feel they can't be seen to chatter. Like it undermines our worth .

Surely it would only be trivial in the way people are taking it if everyone else on the bus was doing something meaningful?

All the other people are crying/shushing children/shouting.

Everything happening on the bus is doing trivial things.

'Cause that last sentence totally made sense.

You get what I mean. :o

Honestly I think it's very little to do with feminism. I think it's a way to feel superior over others. All this patronising talk about how people don't think it's sexist because they 'don't see it yet'.Believe it or not, some of us have thought about it and don't consider it sexist.

I have read the feminism board and I think there are some good debates that are ruined by people trying to outsmart others who don't agree with them and who assume that people who don't agree with them are just not as intelligent.

I wonder if this thread was started by someone taking the piss out of that with all the post grad talk.

Have you noticed how many morons start every sentence with SO ???.
As this thread was.

because they 'don't see it yet'

Or we're underthinking

I actually hate that term. Mumsnet is the only place I've ever actually heard it.

'Informal talking' would be rubbish in the song, it doesn't fit at all.

Vicky

Amazing how many people use offensive words, or worst still don't even know they are doing so....

'calm down dear' to 'shut up'. IMO. Same basic meaning, one is sexist.

What if you are trying to calm a deer?

Mummies on the bus dis-cuss dis-cuss allll dayyyy longgg.

That's totally different, you need smelling salts for that, not a postgraduate qualification.

Would i need a down stuffed dear pillow?

that one didn't really work

Hmmm

The Mummies on the bus have a heart to heart, heart to heart, heart to heart.

Seriously....you want 2,3 and 4 year olds to say pontificate.

Good luck to that one!

My dd struggles with the simplest of words sometimes