"There's more than one way to be a girl"

[TyneTeas]

On the BBC website about Pippi Longstocking

www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180417-pippi-longstocking-and-the-subversive-heroines-children-love

(1st para:

"Once upon a time, long before Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls elbowed aside fairy-tale princesses and replaced them with inspirational trailblazers like Ada Lovelace and Amelia Earhart, an idiosyncratic fictional heroine was rebelling against sexism in children’s literature, captivating young readers around the world and showing them that there was more than one way of being a girl."

Clicky link...

www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180417-pippi-longstocking-and-the-subversive-heroines-children-love

There's lots of stories and areas of childhood that need changing, when I was growing up I hated that my handwriting wasn’t girly enough, to stop being bossy even though boys doing the same thing were praised and that I wasn’t allowed closed toe shoes so my socks kept getting wet I mean seriously why do girls need open toe shoes they just make your feet cold and wet!

I never read Pippi; my favourites were the girls in Swallows and Amazons, all of them not just Nancy - 'more than one way of being a girl' indeed.

I didn't read Pippi as a child. Dd was bought one.

I love Pippi and her unorthodox lifestyle and her habit of lifting up people who piss her off and popping them in a tree or something, fervently

yeah, sadly I got my hands on a copy of All that Katy Did. That book has a lot to answer for.

Oh ReluctantCamper my 9yr old loves all the katy books but she loves pippi & loads of other fantastic female protagonists (my phone wants that to say propagandists ) too.

I used to love Jo in Little Women-a girl with her own mind who became a writer.

I sometimes wonder if Famous Five George wanted to be a boy so much because she rejected the inequality of the gender role expectations for women and girls and didn't wish to be treated so or if she was trans

Loads of us were tomboys, we aren't trans. We could see how women are treated whether we do or dont perform femininity, and rejected the repressive gender stereotypes.

Gosh yes I have a "tomboy" (I don't like the term, she's a girl) and didn't and don't perform femininity myself.

It's terrifying to think the future is so gender stereotypes that we'd be reclassified as trans. It really is.

I wish men and women could just perform how they like .

Not really read them but I have been here www.alv.se/en