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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
What if they had flipped it and exchanged brother for sister, inserting an adjective for the brother that would be stereotypically fitting and changing the fonts to reflect a more masculine image?
Gotta problem with that? Yup, I do.
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I have a bigger problem - those shirts already exist. I've seen lots of boys' shirts with masculine reasons not to do homework/study/be intelligent. I've seen the shirts on 20-somethings; I've seen the shirts on boys too young to walk. Where are the news stories on those?
In several instances I know of my friends and family, there was a young boy who was enrolling in grade school. His birthday was close to the cut-line for acceptance; administrators say, "If you hold him back a year, he'll be better at sports." What kind of reflection on our society is? Early elementary educators are more concerned about athletic prowess than a child's eagerness to learn?