"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.

don't call people who are struggling against the pervasive misogyny stupid

Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling people who are struggling against the pervasive misogyny stupid, I'm calling the people in this thread who are picking apart and twisting Wheels on the bus, which is sung using objects on a bus, Stupid.

I think it's been an interesting and worthwhile discussion especially as someone happy to call myself a feminist who's worked in early years for many years.

I think we should lay responsibility for trolling squarely at the hairy feet of those responsible for it.

OP wasn't annoyed at the song being sung using objects on the bus! Read the OP. Unless you think mummies and daddies are objects on the bus?

I wonder why the OP never returned?

OP wasn't annoyed at the song being sung using objects on the bus! Read the OP. Unless you think mummies and daddies are objects on the bus?

Not to get involved with other peoples arguments.... but they are objects on the bus.

Apart from the children going up and down of course, obvious drug reference

That would explain why the bus never stops to pick up any other passengers.

Roll up
Roll up
For the magical mystery tour!!!

I wonder why the OP never returned?

Probably yelling at a bus going over her bridge.

I think the op was having a laugh with us tbh.

Horse drawn buses
came to be
In early 1823

A decade later
when phased out
the steam carriage came about

The combustion engine
came alive
was popular by '95

From that point on
we see it grow
Into the bus that we all know.

Might as well get a history lesson in.

I never know why people worry so much about the OP, especially when they post and run.
To me it's just a starter for discussion (but I think my brain is wired a bit differently to most)

Very good Jason

I am not worried about the OP, that would be weird. Just fascinates me why people arrive and ask AIBU then don't stick around to either discuss it or get the verdict. What's the point of that?

Pirate, no, I think the daddies shush the mummies. But anyway, the point stands about women 'chattering'.

I'm not calling people who are struggling against the pervasive misogyny stupid, I'm calling the people in this thread who are picking apart and twisting Wheels on the bus, which is sung using objects on a bus, Stupid.

But on this thread people who object to pervasive misogyny and people who are 'picking apart' (as you'd have it) the song are one and the same. Because pervasive misogyny is pervasive (and pernicious and insidious) precisely BECAUSE it manifests and perpetuates itself through seemingly innocuous, everyday things.

Very good Jason

Thank you, if nothing else i've learnt the history of buses.

I wonder why the OP never returned? Probably did under a different UN

I've enjoyed this thread, but it's almost at an end.
Can we do the banana boat song next?

DAYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOO.

daaaayooo

Please let's not do The Banana Boat song.

Let's all just enjoy it. :o

Good question Sparklingbrook < innocent smile >

There is a distinct lack of boats in that song considering the title. I am bristling.

But there are many Bananas.

Beautiful bunches of them.

I think it's an old song Banana Boat workers used to sing sparkling, rather than it being about the boats.

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