"Mum goes viral for re-writing daughter's sexist homework"

[YoloSwaggins]

I'm really sorry to be linking to the Daily Shite, but I read this:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4563880/Mom-goes-viral-rewriting-daughter-s-sexist-homework.html

And thought the original was shocking, the re-write was great, the mum is a great mum who is teaching her daughter equality, all is good.

Then I go into the comments, and jesus fucking christ. Reams upon reams of people basically saying women shouldn't work, it's in their biology to have kids, they should stay home till their kids are 18, women wanting kids and a career are selfish, working parents are the reason for mental disorders, etc etc.

This really upset me (as someone who had a working mum, loved the independence and after-school clubs, and couldn't be prouder of my mum in her amazing career).

Who are these cave-trolls in the DM comments?! Literally, I don't know anyone who actually has this attitude in 2017. Is it pensioners? Like, WHO believes these things?

Also, it's clearly not in everyone's "biology", because I've never wanted kids and still don't - I can't think of anything worse than permanent responsibility.

Not to mention how what she'd re-written was too complicated for her kid. Of course it isn't. It was perfectly readable and was making a point that her daughter needs to hear.

All the little messages add up.

The Daily Fail - where women on benefits are told to get to work, women at work are told to get back to the kitchen and their readers fail to see the irony in this.

couldn't be prouder of my mum in her amazing career

I'm the same. I try as best I can to avoid comments on articles such as this, they're invariably filled with misogynists (who seem to spend their days incessantly bombarding any feminist article with comments).

That the sheet itself was actually given out to children to complete is pretty worrying. Great to see this woman write her own far more appropriate version.

It just shocks me because maybe I'm naive, but I didn't think anyone had these attitude apart from

a) teenagers trying to entertain their mates
b) very very old people
c) those nutters on ReturnOfKings/MGTOW

I need to stop reading the Daily Mail, it just makes me so fucking angry.

Also, I probably haven't grown up around these attitudes as I'm from an ex-communist country, so everyone up to my great-great grandparents worked and it was never "frowned upon".

I've noticed a lot of the particularly sexist comments always tend to be from the US. So have literally gone out of their way to find an article to about!

Though the DM website and its comments aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

YoloSwaggins it is worrying how many people seem to have these attitudes but comments on articles of this nature are invariably risible nonsense and not worth anyone's time.

What's also worrying is a school teaching children this kind of sentiment, yet another message children are receiving attempting to force the into the roles society ascribes for them due to their sex.

To rant*

Friggin awesome woman!

I had to unfollow the Metro on facebook (I don't know why I was following them in the first place, I promise I do have a brain) because I couldn't stand reading the comments. What you would imagine are fairly normal people are actually furious misogynists .

Good for her. Id have done the same. Yeah comments below are depressing but sadly not confined to the tabloid press

Could someone give a summary of what the woman corrected, please?

As I don't want to give the dm the click.

m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_592fc942e4b09ec37c31bc45 non DM link instead

Before

After

The original piece of homework...was that given by a male or female teacher?

It was probably given by an internet homework download site.

My google-fu is strong - it came from a book:

books.google.com.mt/books?id=E2nHBgAAQBAJ

It doesn't surprise me - DS1 has some American English books, and some of the stuff they have to do is bizarre.

Oh, or not, google said yes, but my browsing the contents says no - mind you, the sentences are still all a bit weird to my eye.

This looks like an American family - the references to "Mommy" and "public school" give it away

The story is something which happened New York.

This kind of work being given to young children to do is rather worrying wherever it happens of course. I can certainly imagine similar here especially with some of the enforcement of sex stereotypes I've read of happening at primary schools.

Thanks choc

Yes, it certainly tallies with the stuff my 6 year old brought home in his international (ie. American) school English book.. it was very Janet and John mixed with Salvadore Dali. Eg:

Fox saw Duck packing up, She joined Duck to help, The friends hauled the big things in a van, "Thanks!" said Duck with joy

For the section on au/aw/oy sounds.