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I've just had an email from the local Children's Centre with their summer programme. There are two themed weeks.

One is Pirates and Princesses, the other Fairies/Wizards.

Oh goodness will I be feeding back my thoughts on that, once I've taken the swearing out because the only contact I have is some poor bloody admin who doesn't deserve to get my full and frank opinion on the subject.

And they ask me why I don't go to mother-and-child groups much...

Date: 2013-06-21 12:07 pm (UTC)
clanwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] clanwilliam
1953 would have been less gender stereotyped, I suspect.

Date: 2013-06-21 01:45 pm (UTC)
nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Harriet)
From: [personal profile] nineveh_uk
As would actual pirates!

Date: 2013-06-21 02:45 pm (UTC)
coughingbear: im in ur shipz debauchin ur slothz (Default)
From: [personal profile] coughingbear
That is brilliant!

I was stumped, in the London Aquarium shop last weekend, to see that they had two stands of pirate-y things (hats, cutlasses, etc); one lot in black/grey, and one lot all in pink. All over.

Date: 2013-06-21 03:12 pm (UTC)
coughingbear: im in ur shipz debauchin ur slothz (Default)
From: [personal profile] coughingbear
I've always thought so.

I like Locke Lamora very much, but haven't got round to the sequel yet.

Date: 2013-06-21 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] caulkhead
I would be tempted to go as a pirate princess, but suspect your version is better.

What reaction do you think Small Child would get if she turned up as a pirate and declared she was Anne Bonny?

Date: 2013-06-21 02:52 pm (UTC)
clanwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] clanwilliam
Dress him up in white with a veil, hand him a hammer, and announce that he's Thor, pretending to be Freya.

That way he can also thump anyone who decides to mock him for being "girly".

Date: 2013-06-21 02:28 pm (UTC)
antisoppist: (no barbie)
From: [personal profile] antisoppist
Arggh. When Small Daughter was at our Children's Centre, I was impressed to hear a member of staff saying to a shocked father at pick-up time "Fred picked that dress from the dressing-up rail. He likes the red frills." In other words it isn't all of them. Not that that helps you in the current situation. I suspect they will be perfectly happy to accommodate a female pirate but discouraging of male fairies.

Son, who was told "elves are for girls" by his little friends when in year 3 is finding the argument easier now they have reached the Lord of the Rings stage.

Date: 2013-06-21 03:01 pm (UTC)
antisoppist: (no barbie)
From: [personal profile] antisoppist
Murdering raping bastards is still better than people thinking they're twee - an assumption that round here gets you invited round to watch the army of archers arriving at Helm's Deep.

Date: 2013-06-21 03:08 pm (UTC)
clanwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] clanwilliam
At least from the wizard point of view, there's Diane Duane's Young Wizards, which is admirably egalitarian.

Date: 2013-06-21 03:40 pm (UTC)
legionseagle: Lai Choi San (Default)
From: [personal profile] legionseagle
Indeed. Plus Grace O'Malley

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