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Dear Ontario school;
There is a lot wrong with this, and only a little bit right.
Using comics to get kids interested in reading is good.
Giving grade 7 boys Frank Miller to work with is not so good.
Giving girls midwifery instead of the goddamned Batman is frustrating and insulting on a number of levels.
Why do we need to give boys and girls different things to read at all?
There is a lot wrong with this, and only a little bit right.
Using comics to get kids interested in reading is good.
Giving grade 7 boys Frank Miller to work with is not so good.
Giving girls midwifery instead of the goddamned Batman is frustrating and insulting on a number of levels.
Why do we need to give boys and girls different things to read at all?
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All the kids I know like to read. Yes, it's a matter of finding a book that triggers that kid into reading, but that's not a "girl book" vs. "boy book" thing.
What I was saying is once you can swallow the sexism in the idea that boys need some kind of special trigger to get them to read, that the rest of the stuff is so monumentally sexist is easier to fall into.
Assumption: Boys don't like reading. Boys need special motivation to do so.
Hypothesis: Boys need different material to read than girls.
Method: Create gender biased reading program to encourage reading skills in both sexes.
Do you see what I'm getting at?