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Is Winnie the Pooh a Sexist?

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Feminists professors amuse me. An Image of Women Hate Children's literature is inherently sexist because the majority of heroes are male, a study claims. An analysis of 6,000 best-selling children’s books published during the past century concludes that male lead characters vastly outnumber female ones. Lead researcher Janice McCabe, of Florida State University, called the trend inherently sexist. ‘Books contribute to how children understand what is expected of women and men, and shape the way children will think about their own place in the world,’ she said. ‘The persistent pattern of disparity among animal characters may reveal a subtle kind of symbolic annihilation of women disguised through animal imagery.’   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383533/The-sexist-tales-Peter-Rabbit-Fantastic-Mr-Fox.html#ixzz1Lusauicw

White Noise

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Whoopi Goldberg is producing an “edgy” and “provocative” musical about the danger of mainstream White Supremacists bands. Her friends at the SPLC agree that this is another reason we should scrap the Bill of Rights. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/146836-Whoopi-Goldberg-Among-Producers-of-Provocative-Musical-White-Noise-Sounding-Off-in-Chicago Here's how the producers characterize the work: "White Noise is a provocative new rock musical that follows a pair of sisters who are discovered by a powerful record producer, and groomed into a well-packaged rock/pop band, which mixes irresistible harmonies with coded rhetoric into chart-blazing hits. Inspired by real life, White Noise fuses today's headlines and blogs into a cautionary tale that challenges conventional notions of free speech, media and the power of pop culture." Here is the web site of the “edgy” and “provocative” musical. The web site will help increase your “awareness”. (No, this is a real web site. In ...