AIBU - sexist science homework

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Lst night's science homework was to write a short passage about a famous scientist, what they discovered and its applications today.

Fine except that each question said 'he'.

Eg what was his name? What did he discover?

DD and I chose Marie Curie and changed everything to she.

AIBU to make the point on the prep sheet or just touchy?
Does it matter? It felt to me like it does. Grrrr

We did already have Snow Rainbow and the seven People Of Restricted Growth pages ago...

... who came from Personchester

ROFLROFL

I shall Retire Not Out.

He'll never admit to being stumped.
I'm sure there should be a MumsNet rule banning cricketing metaphors.

Let's take it as an admission of defeat.

Now let's rub it in. New thread, anyone?

hows about banning wee brackets

i see them and just think-spit it oot dont fanny about with lil shapes,speak up for fuck sake

Actually, scotmum, I use wee brackets for when I'm not speaking.

See?

Oh, I could go on...

well actually you are typing to anonymous many,speaking to none

so using wee to allude to intimacy or speaking is erroneous. they neither add urgency or intimacy they seem to be a faux colloquialism on MN

Huh? Did you not read my post? Who said nything about them "alluding to intimacy or speaking"?

Bizarre.

And what the hell is a 'faux' colloquialism??!

Fun?

Nighty, Leningrad.

public forum read by anonymous many.you are speaking to no one

you type in belief that those you think you know are reading- perhaps
also many unknown anonymous others read too - definitely

so alluding to as you say "I'm not speaking. " is in fact wholly erroneous and mimics a personalisation the discussion forum cannot possibly offer

SM, perhaps you limit yourself to communicating in a totally impersonal manner, but I'd say you're in the minority, especially on this forum. You might think you can prescribe the way people write on MN, and you may even try your very hardest to do so, but people will just ignore you and get on with what they were doing.

Night night.

I take those constructs to be somewhat akin to stage directions. Mrs Merry may well have actually performed the action she types. The for sure!

It is a little pedantic to object to the term 'speaking' when we are under the heading of 'Mumsnet Talk'!

I think of them as stage directions too. Which is pretty appropriate for someone talking to another, with a large yet anonymous audience.

I also think they add colour and structure.

Like punctuation

Or should that be ?

to speak is a verbal spoken heard communication.maybe call it MN write

no one is talking - nothing is audible.
it is all tap tapping pc warriors

Heres one of the definitions of 'speak':

2 a : to make a written statement

... and quite accidentally, shows the use of angle brackets to delimit an illustration.