I despair !

[Feegle]

I was looking for a book for my dds on Amazon and came across "Girls are Best" by Sandi Toksvig. I was hoping to find a book to counteract the onslaught of crap they are faced with daily. Anyway there was this review of the book, see below :

"I am usually a fan of Sandi Toksvig and find her quite amusing but this book is just a shameful attempt to fill the heads of young girls with feminist nonsense and give them ideas beyond their station. Simply trawling through history to find females (however obscure) that managed to achieve anything does not further the cause in any way, it just highlights the fact that 99% of all invention, scientific/medical discoveries and indeed general greatness were achieved by the male of the species. It is only in the last 40 years or so that females (most of them envious and dissatisfied) have decided they want a piece of the pie. If females were truly as good as males then they would not need to rely on unfair equal opportunities legislation (think unfair promotion in government and big-business etc ). Even with all this now firmly in place men are still vastly more successful than women and this should tell us something. Women still excel in childcare, nursing, homemaking and certain 'hospitality' industries and this should tell us something too.

It's the title 'Girls Are Best' that's so wrong. If it had been called 'Girls Are Quite Good Sometimes in Exceptional Circumstances' then it would have been less controversial and nearer the truth. Imagine the rage of the feminist brigade if anyone dared to write a book called 'Boys are Best' (or even implied it in any way).

It is also very telling that there is no mention of Mrs Thatcher in this book (someone who did indeed achieve greatness on her own merits). Could this be that she didn't subscribe to or have any time for the kind of bra-burning facial-haired feminism that this book is surreptitiously trying to promote.

If you are thinking of buying this book then think again and buy your wives/daughters/nieces etc books on marrying well, motherhood and household management as this will serve them much better in the long run. "

WTF

Anyway does anybody know of a book I feel like I am loosing the will to live here. Does anybody else feel like we are bloody well going backwards ?

Eh, ISNT?

A book called boys are best doesn't raise an eyebrow because that seems like a perfectly normal thing to call a book. Most people would think that anyone who objected was silly and would wonder what their problem was.

A book called girls are best might be considered to be a bit of a joke, or (as per the (fake?) review) written to try and bolster girls up with a pack of lies. Or possibly an insane feminist tract which proves that feminists all hate men.

That's how it feels to me anyway.

Point was made earlier - there is a book called boys are best - has it got "hilarious" fake reviews all over it or outraged comments? No of course not, because it is subconsciously accepted by most people in the UK that boys are best and so the name of the book doesn't register as odd in any way.

oh come on, this is what it says about 'Boys Are Best':

'?Girls are so silly!? That?s what two very opinionated little boys have to say, as they make fun of everything female. ?They spend all day combing their dolls? hair!? one mocks. And they?re ?such scaredy cats!? laughs the other. But the guys soon get their comeuppance when it turns out they?re the ones who get frightened?not their sister!
Manuela Olten?s bright, distinctly tongue-in-cheek pictures will have young readers laughing out loud.'

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So is it not true now that in our society things which are "male" are "best" and things which are "female" are inferior?

What are we all doing here then?