I recently read a story from the guardian entitled “Feminist books for five-year-olds” which describes a woman named Viv Groskop who apparently has a big problem with anything masculine.
So let the gender indoctrination begin. In Ms. Groskop’s article she tries to point out that boys and girls are different. (Wait,what, Really?) She starts off by saying what really started this off was the fact that her 6 year old son didn’t want any girls at his birthday party because in the boys words “Girls are boring.” Well yeah let’s look at that, he is a six year old boy lady to him girls still have cooties. I am sorry to be the one to have to tell you and the other feminazis out there but that is a normal reaction from a boy his age and he is not and I repeat is not being sexist. What this womanist seems to be forgetting is all the psychological studies done by PHD’s and Doctors of Psychology which clearly shows that gender identity is not something that is taught to you by children’s books or gender centric indoctrination. We will get more into the Psychology of gender development in a bit but first…
In Ms. Groskop’s description of her ideology which in my opinion is going to do nothing but damage her son as he grows up. In the second paragraph of her article she states, “Will has enjoyed baking cakes, Vera has pretended to be Luke Skywalker. But the older they get, the harder it is to resist the pink-and-blue divide.” She says that as though gender identity is a wholly learned behavior as though there is no natural hormone driven separation between boys and girls gender development. If this was true, then by that logic a boy who is raised by a single mother from the time of infancy would grow up only liking Barbie and would surely feel completely comfortable wearing dresses and would by default grow up to be gay. Or a girl who has was raised her whole life by a single father without the feminine influence of a mother would most certainly only like G.I. Joe and Monster trucks. However time and time again that logic is not only proven incorrect but is downright foolish.
Her extremely female centered ideology can also clearly be seen when she describes her story time reading when she was a nanny. She stated, “I found myself editing the words so as not to pass on a sexist message,” she goes on to say, “In most children’s books the girls have pretty frocks and bows in their hair, so I would turn it around – call the boys by girls’ names and vice versa.” This is absolutely absurd. She is in her own words stating that because the children’s books that the parents i.e. her employers bought for their children didn’t fit into her personal ideology she took it upon herself to try to indoctrinate someone else’s children with her unfortunate view of the world that appears to be girls should be boys and boys should be girls. Being as I do not have a degree in psychology I personally can’t speak to her true ideology or psychological state, but the evidence seems to point to personal issues relating to gender superiority or at the very least an extremely skewed idea of gender roles between boys and girls. What I mean by that last statement is that she may see one gender – specifically the female gender as superior to that of the male gender which may be the reason for trying so hard to skew her children’s ideas of gender rolls. Which has the potential to cause confusion in the child due to the fact that in society they see identifiable separate gender activities but at home they are being taught a gender superiority idea.
Since at this point I am sure some feminazi is thinking “Oh yeah prove that gender identity is not a wholly taught idea.” Okay, I will. First let us take a look at “Kohlberg’s Theory of Gender Identity.” In 1966 Kohlberg put forth that there are three stages of gender development in children. The basics of this are stated as follows: “The first stage is gender identity, which is usually reached by the age of 2 years. At this stage the child is able to correctly label its own sex. The second stage is gender stability, which is usually reached by the age of 4 years. At this stage the child realizes that gender remains the same across time. However, its understanding of gender is heavily influenced by external features like hair and clothing. A boy at this stage might say that if he put a dress on he would be a girl. It is not until the third stage, gender constancy, that the child starts to understand that gender is independent of external features. This stage is usually reached by the age of 7 years.” Mental note, her son is 6 or stage three and her daughter is 3 or stage two. Hmmm wonder which one is more susceptible to gender programming based on Kohlbergs assertion.
As stated above, observation of gender specific activities do play a roll in the identity development of children. Let’s look further at what this anti-princess is doing. I call her an anti-princess because she seems to thinks highly of the anti-princess reading list. Which were pioneered by the websites Mommytracked.com and Bitchmagazine.org. Plus I highly doubt she, on the absolutely remote chance she will ever read the White male oppressor would find that an insult. She states “So Pippi seems a good place to start. But can a three-year-old girl who wants to marry her daddy, and a six-year-old boy who hates pink, really be radicalised in just five easy reads? Time to find out . . .” which she follows by reading the following books to her children and then putting their reactions in her article.
First we have the ever popular Pippy Longstocking. If any of you out there are actually unsure of what it is about, here is a short description: “Pippi’s mother dies on the first page and her father is lost at sea. Oh dear. But left to her own devices, Pippy goes on adventures, tells tall stories and is super-humanly strong.” I remember this story from my youth and personally do not have a problem with it. I think that it is a fun story for both boys and girls.
The next book on this girl power reading list is Girls are not Chicks: Coloring book. I went to Amazon.com to look through this book and wow. The first picture to be colored is a girl in a ballerina outfit holding a wrench reciting what I think are ballet terms while on her way to mechanic class. Yeah I kinda scratched my head too.
Next we have a book that I do absolutely have a problem with. Princess Smartypants which is about a woman who did not want to get married. The character in the book keeps giant slugs as pets and challenges her prince suitors to roller-disco marathons. When one of them finally wins her over she intentionally turns him into a toad by kissing him and when the other princes hear what happened to Prince Swashbuckle, none of them wanted to marry Smartypants, and she lived happily ever after. Yeah that’s a good wholesome message. If someone wins you over don’t love them, destroy them.
Well, you get the idea. While I would absolutely love to post the picture of this woman reading to her children because the body language is absolutely great, I didn’t want to get sued for not having permission to use a picture of her children, however if you want to see the pic. click on the first hyper-link of this article. Her son seems to be really uninterested in the book while her daughter seems enthralled with it big surprise she is reading a book called Pirate Girl to her kids which is about a girl named Molly who sets of in her boat on holiday to her granny’s, when she is kidnapped by Captain Firebeard and his vicious band of pirates. However Molly’s mother is Barbarous Bertha and when she comes to rescue her daughter she brings her own female pirate crew. At the end the male pirates are forced to polish Barbarous Bertha’s boots 14 times a week. Yeah beat down those evil men! Once again a fantastically wholesome message for a children’s book.
The point is: quit with the misandristic childrens books, quit trying to force your children into a potentially confusing idea. Do you honestly think that a three year old girl has the reasoning capacity to understand complex gender identity issues? And do you honestly think that pushing a femcentric ideology on a 6 year old boy is going to make him sensitive to the imagined oppression of women (Muslim countries excluded) or do you think it is going to maybe cause him anger and confusion having consistently being told through these stories that boys are either bad or unnecessary. Use your head or start shopping for a psychiatrist now because it’s going to get really expensive for you.
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