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Study Suggests That Winnie the Pooh Isn't Gender Equal, But Does it Matter?
Fox News ^ | May 7th, 2011 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 05/07/2011 4:20:15 AM PDT by KantianBurke

A comprehensive study of traditional children’s book characters has determined that Pooh Corner may be rife with gender inequality.

Dr. Janice McCabe, a sociologist at Florida State University, examined nearly 6,000 children’s books between 1900 and 2000 and determined the stories have a definitive gender bias and a disproportionate representation of genders.

“We found that males are represented more frequently than females in the titles and the central characters in the book,” McCabe told Fox News Radio.

Fifty seven percent of the children’s stories featured male characters, 31 percent featured female characters and the remainder had animal characters of unknown gender identity, according to the study.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: crazyprofessor; pcidiocy; pooh; sodomhusseinobama
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This story is obnoxious. The all knowing professor would serve her school and community much better investigating more pressing issues such as how to combat the epidemic of kids growing up without dads rather than this nonsense.
1 posted on 05/07/2011 4:20:22 AM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke

NO, it doesn’t matter.


2 posted on 05/07/2011 4:24:52 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: KantianBurke

How much did this twit spend in taxpayer money for “research”? More importantly, where do we go from here? Will children’s book writers be held accountable?


3 posted on 05/07/2011 4:25:30 AM PDT by albie
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To: KantianBurke

A far more worthwhile study would be to determine why immigrants can pass a civics test that American public school children cannot pass.


4 posted on 05/07/2011 4:26:17 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: KantianBurke

This goof ball needs something to do.

What a waste of time.


5 posted on 05/07/2011 4:28:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: KantianBurke

The most relevant study is...how the he$% has American society grown so dysfunctional that she even has a JOB....much less receives taxpayers’ monies?!!!


6 posted on 05/07/2011 4:29:38 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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“This goof ball needs something to do. What a waste of time.”

That’s right; you know the sh!t hasn’t hit the fan yet when people are paid (by taxpayers) for this silliness. When it hits the fan, people like this will be consumed alive (literally) by the people they fleeced for decades.

If it makes these wastes of space feel any better, American children don’t read anymore anyway; next gripe, please?


7 posted on 05/07/2011 4:34:19 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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Dr. Janice McCabe, a sociologist at Florida State University, examined nearly 6,000 children’s books between 1900 and 2000...

Pretty old broad, eh?

Or should I just say, TTIUWP?

8 posted on 05/07/2011 4:38:56 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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Dr. Janice McCabe, a sociologist at Florida State University,

Then people wonder why they need Government assistance to send their kids to school its because of this.


9 posted on 05/07/2011 4:42:28 AM PDT by omega4179 (Thank you G W Bush for Guantanamo intel.)
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10 posted on 05/07/2011 4:46:19 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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What sensible parent names their son “Winnie” anyway.

PC is the new stupid.


11 posted on 05/07/2011 4:47:49 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Saul Alinsky, meet Donald Trump...")
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After reading this story, I have a mind to complain to the Governor of Florida about this State University receiving tax monies to research this kind of drivel. My daughter was an anthropology major in college, and had to take a number of sociology classes. They are all politically correct, deconstructionist leaning courses the main purpose of which is to challenge tradition.


12 posted on 05/07/2011 4:48:22 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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“The all knowing professor would serve her school and community much better investigating more pressing issues “

Something tells me this idiot’s time is best spent spinning her wheels over stupid crap like this study.


13 posted on 05/07/2011 4:53:05 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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His name is Edward Bear. Winnie-ther-Pooh is a nickname.

I wonder if "Doctor" McCabe has explored the patriarchal, phallocentric implications of Kanga's exclusively maternal role?

Could be another grant in the making.

14 posted on 05/07/2011 4:53:17 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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No kidding!

Winnie the Pooh is a bear! Good grief.

And they spent how much money for this?

15 posted on 05/07/2011 4:55:42 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Uh... Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill and the American, Jennie Jerome, tried it; reportedly, the kid didn’t turn out too bad. ;-)


16 posted on 05/07/2011 4:55:54 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

By the way, Winnie the Pooh was a bear; the kid’s name was Christopher Robin.


17 posted on 05/07/2011 4:57:39 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: KantianBurke

Tax dollars at work. Don’t expect any better.


18 posted on 05/07/2011 4:58:37 AM PDT by all the best
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To: martin_fierro

That is too funny. I am reading a set of Pooh books to my five year old. She loves them! The characters fit a lot of individuals you may know or meet.


19 posted on 05/07/2011 5:02:39 AM PDT by momtothree
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This study is an example of why college tuition is out of sight. We pay for not only professors, but for the Teacher Aide who actually teaches, while the professor (making in the six figures) spends their time on these ridiculous studies. Unbelievable!


20 posted on 05/07/2011 5:06:00 AM PDT by onevoter
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