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 ...
I guess it is just assumed that they are also all sexist, racist and homophobic?
feh...
A. A. Milne wrote the stories for Christopher Robin Milne (born 1920, died 1996). Christopher Robin was a boy, and it’s not surprising that the character role models in stories invented to entertain him would also be boys. That doesn’t prevent normal parents from using the stories to entertain and teach daughters as well. If gender inequity in fiction is the worst problem a little girl faces in her life, her parents are sheltering her too much.
The news story itself is rife with gender inequality.
100% of the sociologists quoted in the article are female, whereas only 100% of the parents that are quoted are male. The author of the study is 100% female.
Such blatant discrimination reinforces the belief that female sociologists are more important than male parents, more interesting than male characters, which has implications for how both boys and girls feel about themselves and each other in relationships.
So, where do I go to get my PhD?
“So, where do I go to get my PhD?”
Once you have remitted tens of thousands of dollars to nearly any major research university, and perhaps kissed the butt of the department chair and 2-3 individuals they will name as your dissertation committee, it’s all yours...
It's interesting to learn that the Pooh books are read in the US - I was brought up on them as a little boy in England, and Iive always thought of them as quintessentially English, not readily transferrable to other cultures (especially the delicate, whimsical humour). But I suppose the underlying themes are timeless and placeless.
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.
'dr Jan' has waaaaaaay too much time on her hands and should get fired for wasting the peoples tax money.
an aside:
'Jan' prolly took offense when she *studied* the Three Little Pigs and found out they are straight. And she really got ticked when she also found that the Seven Dwarfs didn't molest Snow White.
I bet 'dr' Jan's college minor was in 'Wymen Studies'
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Not really. I would bet my bottom dollar she has a "partner" and not a spouse.
You can watch her for a minute on this video: (she comes on at :45 sec)If you can stomach the subject...
Okay, I did a screen cap...
“.. underlying themes are timeless and placeless”
What my little one is getting from it is this: people have different personalities but as friends, you deal with them and have fun. There are 19 small sets of books and each one deals with something a child would sort of deal with: fear of the wind, working with each other, having fun. Her favorite characters are Tigger and Pooh. I am partial to Eeyore.
It’s a metrosexual name!
“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?”
So how many children could have received precious face-to-face time with a professor instead? But no, this professor was much too busy reading children’s books. Not to mention all the Teaching Assistants she also tied up, in her unending quest for gender ‘equity’ (a little Jesse Jackson lingo).
Sir Winston Churchhill was knick named (?)
No one ever called him sissy!
I own and have read these books. HIGHLY recommended -- they are a series of essays on Pooh written in various postmodernist styles, from Marxist to evolutionary biologist to postcolonialism. Devastating sendups.
(No, I am not renumerated in any way, nor do I have any connection to those who are.)
Cheers!
Either her glasses are askew or her eyes aren’t level.
I always thought that Pooh guy was a little light in the loafers...
“I would bet my bottom dollar she has a “partner” and not a spouse.”
Just how many children does she have, and just how much experience does she have raising small children?
My guess is zilch. Another self-proclaimed expert with no practical experience.
A feminazi at work. I bet she views EVERYTHING in life through this prism of gender and male domination.
She is drifting aimlessly and fails to grasp the purpose of Pooh.
To understand it all, get and read “The Tao of Pooh”
The philosophy lessons given are the point of the series
It takes a special kind of stupid to politicize children’s stories. President Zero would be proud.
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