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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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I think this may partly be a generational thingMrs G may well have done something similar in her day, although I'm not aware that she did.
What 'the kids today' don't realise is how sexist things were back then. This is decades before 'Billy Blue Hat', more 'Janet and John' I suspect, where Janet had a pinafore skirt and John had shorts. Women were vilified for wearing dungarees and DMs and for cutting their hair short, 'Miss World' was on our TV screens (as was the 'Black & White Minstrel Show'), girls weren't allowed to wear trousers to school etc etc.
It was the generation of women growing up then that got things changed and don't you forget it.
So, well done Turangal Leela for striking a blow for feminism - you may have created the book that changed some young girl's life.
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