Did I wake up in 1953 by mistake?
Jun. 22nd, 2013 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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...
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...
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:31 pm (UTC)http://fuckyeahscifiwomenofcolour.tumblr.com/post/37413846476/author-scott-lynch-responds-to-a-critic-of-the
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:45 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:56 pm (UTC)So far, Locke Lamora is stuffed with women doing things, running businesses, having jobs, without any comment at all. It really makes me realise how this is missing in so much fantasy.
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Date: 2013-06-21 03:12 pm (UTC)I like Locke Lamora very much, but haven't got round to the sequel yet.
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:02 pm (UTC)What reaction do you think Small Child would get if she turned up as a pirate and declared she was Anne Bonny?
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:52 pm (UTC)That way he can also thump anyone who decides to mock him for being "girly".
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:57 pm (UTC)This is why everyone should study mythology.
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:28 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2013-06-21 03:15 pm (UTC)We'll have
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