Mild misandry indoctrination
December 12th, 2008 Egghead
I went to my little nephew’s Christmas program at his school yesterday evening. It was a nice, cute little affair. But the kids sang one song that saddened me as much as if they had been forced to act in an Everyone Loves Raymond episode.
It was a song about Dad putting up lights on the rooftop. And the kids were expressing concern – hoping that he wouldn’t fall off and get hurt. Of course to set up those sentimental thoughts, the song had to portray dad as an imbecilic Homer Simpson-type who would decide not to take any safety precautions, and would choose to decorate on the day where the rooftops were covered in ice.
My brother and I both noticed this.
Yes, I know there are bigger injustices to fight about, but it bothered me that the school’s music teacher saw fit to teach this song, with it’s male-desparaging attitudes to young children in kindergarten and primary grades. This indoctrination simply reinforces attitudes that lead to those larger injustices.