Wow. This is really jaw-dropping. In what must have been an early backlash response to second wave feminism, someone named Whitney Darrow published a children’s book in 1970 called I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! Emily over at My Blahg has posted the entirety of the book and it really is worth taking a gander. It is both jaw-dropping and hilarious, filled with brilliant binaries like, “Boys are strong. Girls are graceful.” “Boys are doctors. Girls are nurses.” “Boys are pilots. Girls are stewardesses.” What’s kinda is disturbing is that, judging from the comments section, some people seem to think these things are still true.
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I’m so confused – I can both eat AND cook.
Uh-oh, I can fix things and cook, should I hide from the gender police?
The conversation over at My Blahg is rather jarring, isn’t it? On the one hand I can see how some people can think these stereotypes still exist, but I cannot see how anyone can agree that they should still be propogated.
I did get a kick out of ‘boys are heroes’/'girls are heroines’ instead of ‘girls are damsels in distress’. I’m sure that was considered progressive at the time.
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