I'm Glad I'm A Boy! I'm Glad I'm A Girl

[Guest]

I'm glad I'm a boy! I'm glad I'm a girl

http://michiedo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-gl...ad-im-girl.html

Old stereotypes will not be found funny by everyone. "We've come a long way baby". Does anyone want to guess when this was written? 1800 comes to mind. Makes me want to go jump in my Burqua covered from head to toe.

Laura

[Guest Irielle]

How funny. We've come quite a way since 1970 but not far enough.

The last page is good, though - "We need each other".

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Sadly,

I think this book is much more recent, probably the 1940s or 50s, possibly even the 1960s.

Yes we have progressed quite a bit from the publishing of this book!! Culturally, we are still evolving. I can't wait what the next 50 years brings us!!

bernii

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Left a comment - you will have to look at the site have it make sense:

I had seen this book before. It shows how people were so stereotyped at one time. I would HATE to see one titled, I am so glad I am White , I am so sorry I am Black, which if you think about it , would be about the same thing. Or one on RICH and Poor, or Able and Handicapped, or Pretty and Ugly. I will stop there. Great artwork though!

As usual -opinionated Lizzy

[Sally]

I remeber seeing that book!

When I was younger* I read it, held it in my hand and thought, "What a load of rubbish, I like dolls and trucks."

Well maybe there is something to it!

Stereotypes just cause trouble, we need to reread this and remember not to fall into those traps as we transition, I still want to be a hero!

Love ya,

Sally

* clarification - younger was in my twenties while still in college and rummaging around used book stores

[Guest karen_h]

I did a little research, the author whitney darrow jr, was a satircal cartoonist for the new yorker and often poked fun at

the percieved stereo types of the times. this book was published in 1970 .

karen_h

[Guest Ryles_D]

Boys are Doctors, Girls are Nurses. Boys are Pilots, Girls are Stewardesses. Boys are Policemen, Girls are Metermaids. Boys fix things, Girls need things fixed.

Wow... that's kinda scary, but I'm glad it was a parody.

[Guest Chrissie]

How funny. We've come quite a way since 1970 but not far enough.

The last page is good, though - "We need each other".

It really looks like the guy he wrote it had values from 1940s or before... boys like trucks girls like dolls, boys become doctors girls become nurses... Boys invent things girls use invented things... [hadn't he heard of Individuals like Madame Curie or Stephanie Kwolek (who created Kevlar) ] I can rant more about this but why bother ... it just shows how far we've come and need to go yet...

Though he did forget a couple... Boys become girls and Girls become boys

The Last page is the best part though "We need each other..." is so true we do need each other.

[Guest Sarah Marie]

I'm glad I'm a boy! I'm glad I'm a girl

http://michiedo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-gl...ad-im-girl.html

Old stereotypes will not be found funny by everyone. "We've come a long way baby". Does anyone want to guess when this was written? 1800 comes to mind. Makes me want to go jump in my Burqua covered from head to toe.

Laura

Laura -- If I recall my pop cultural history correctly, that phrase first surfaced in the late 1960's (1967?) as a long-running ad campaign slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes. Supposedly it was meant to refer to the idea that women finally had their own cigarette brand to identify with. Srill, to me it has kind of an early 60's feel to it, unless I am blending it in with early pop music groups like the Shirrels, The Four Tops and others whose songs included such lines as "ooh, baby, baby . . . "

As to the book in question -- sadly there are STILL people who treat such ideas almost as Gospel Truth. I often wonder -- will the United States ever outgrow late 19th century Victorian cultural values and beliefs?

[Guest leo]

that made me laugh

i think more men actually cook....

[Guest Jackson]

Karen!

Thanks for looking up the publish date. I was betting on the '40s personally, but once you mentioned that he was a satirical cartoonist for the New Yorker, it all made sense.

That is cool. A piece of history.

[Guest Eth]

Sadly,

I think this book is much more recent, probably the 1940s or 50s, possibly even the 1960s.

Yes we have progressed quite a bit from the publishing of this book!! Culturally, we are still evolving. I can't wait what the next 50 years brings us!!

bernii

You say "sadly" as if it's unfortunate that this was more recent than the 1800s, but the way I see it is that it means we've progressed more in a shorter period of time, meaning that we'll progress even more in the future.

Improvements to society are becoming increasingly more frequent and I think that this shows that. In just 50 years we've gotten this far, so I agree with you that I too cannot wait to see what happens in the next 50. Hopefully things will get even better, with equality and acknowledgement of all genders.

-Eth