NO, it doesn’t matter.
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?
A far more worthwhile study would be to determine why immigrants can pass a civics test that American public school children cannot pass.
This goof ball needs something to do.
What a waste of time.
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?!!!
Pretty old broad, eh?
Or should I just say, TTIUWP?
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.
What sensible parent names their son “Winnie” anyway.
PC is the new stupid.
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.
“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.
Tax dollars at work. Don’t expect any better.
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!
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?
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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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!
I always thought that Pooh guy was a little light in the loafers...