a little thing I like to call sexist

I was booze shopping at Costco a couple months ago and came across these two books. Curious, I opened them to do a little compare & contrast study of their content. The authors have made lists for girls and boys separately, in which they prescribe topics they should be interested in. It's a clear example of a social division of gender. Take the title for example: Boys do "dangerous" things, whereas girls are "daring". It's as if anything girls do which is remotely out of the cultural and societal norm is unexpected and shocking, to a certain degree. The authors are telling children that boys are expected to be dangerous, but for girls it's considered bold and courageous and thus out of the norm. The two tables of contents should speak for themselves. Here's what I found.

PS - Shame on you Gonn, Hal, Andrea, and Miriam.

front pages


cover pages


page one of ToCs


boys' ToC


girls' ToC