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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

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To: KantianBurke
I figured she'd be a "looker"... as in "look away, look away". My suspicion was confirmed.


21 posted on 05/07/2011 5:07:50 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: martin_fierro

I guess it is just assumed that they are also all sexist, racist and homophobic?


22 posted on 05/07/2011 5:09:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: KantianBurke
feh...
23 posted on 05/07/2011 5:09:57 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: KantianBurke

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.


24 posted on 05/07/2011 5:13:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: KantianBurke

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?


25 posted on 05/07/2011 5:19:34 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo

“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...


26 posted on 05/07/2011 5:23:20 AM PDT by DrC
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To: momtothree
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.

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.

27 posted on 05/07/2011 5:24:55 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: KantianBurke
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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28 posted on 05/07/2011 5:29:35 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: metesky
Or should I just say, TTIUWP?

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...


29 posted on 05/07/2011 5:31:11 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: Winniesboy

“.. 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.


30 posted on 05/07/2011 5:31:58 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It’s a metrosexual name!


31 posted on 05/07/2011 5:38:29 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: albie

“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).


32 posted on 05/07/2011 5:39:51 AM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Sir Winston Churchhill was knick named (?)

No one ever called him sissy!


33 posted on 05/07/2011 5:40:59 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NOT FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT)
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To: KantianBurke; albie; sueuprising; Venturer
Postmodern Poo

Pooh Perplex

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!

34 posted on 05/07/2011 5:42:21 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 6SJ7

Either her glasses are askew or her eyes aren’t level.


35 posted on 05/07/2011 5:48:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick (We learned to be cool from you, JP2.)
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To: KantianBurke

I always thought that Pooh guy was a little light in the loafers...


36 posted on 05/07/2011 6:00:55 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: raybbr

“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.


37 posted on 05/07/2011 6:04:36 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: KantianBurke

A feminazi at work. I bet she views EVERYTHING in life through this prism of gender and male domination.


38 posted on 05/07/2011 6:08:19 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: KantianBurke

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


39 posted on 05/07/2011 6:09:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Jim Noble

It takes a special kind of stupid to politicize children’s stories. President Zero would be proud.


40 posted on 05/07/2011 6:24:25 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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