and the track over it is gangnam style.
and my son fucking loves it. he stops whatever he’s doing and dances everytime.
and then starts shouting “GAMBBA DA!”
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![niteliterawker:
shannunonon:
somekindofbecca:
sheonlyreadsbooks:
girljanitor:
Steve Bowler tweeted a photo of an assignment that his 8-year-old daughter’s teacher said she did incorrectly. The homework assignment had a list of toys or activities, and the kids were supposed to categorize them based on whether they were for boys, girls, or both, with equal numbers in each box. The assignment takes for granted the gendering of toys, and that there is a “correct” answer to the question of which gender they are appropriate for.
Bowler’s daughter did the assignment differently. After placing 3 items in the “boys” category and 2 in the “girls” group, she made additional boxes to add more things in the “both” column.
But at the bottom, the teacher notes that the assignment wasn’t done correctly. The point of the assignment is to categorize; the implicit message — that boys and girls are different types of people who like different types of things — isn’t questioned. A child sees this list of items and doesn’t gender them in the way the lesson took for granted; the reaction wasn’t to acknowledge her innovation and perhaps question the gendering, it was simply to say she did it wrong.
Bowler, for the record, said he was proud his daughter failed the assignment and just wished she’d done even worse on it.
via sociological images
[some gender-related bullshit removed.]
THIS IS SO FUCKED UP. NO. NO. NO. IF MY KID EVER GETS GIVEN AN ASSIGNMENT LIKE THIS, I’M GOING TO FUCKING ADMINISTRATION. THAT IS BULLSHIT.
Wow.
Why are they having this in a second grade class? Are they trying to teach the children of the world to be sexist? If my kid filled it out this way I would be so proud of them.
What hath come society
I’m trying to teach my son not to categorise like this and it’s hard enough as it is. If he ever got this assignment I would be fuming. Absolutely fuming.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdpb0u3Wfy1rvmzslo1_500.jpg)
Me watching a detective show
- Detective: How did you know the victim?
- Girl in long coat: He was my boyfriend
- Me: She did it
- Detective: When did you last see him?
- Man with beard: Last night
- Me: He did it
- Detective: Were you close?
- Old woman: I barely knew him
- Me: She did it
- Middle-aged business man: I did it
- Me: I knew it
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