Major UK textbook publisher Pearson vows
to 'flip harmful gender stereotypes' in
its products—so astronauts will be
female and boys will bake cakes
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Bhvishya Patel
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/24/2020 1:59:05 PM
School books and exam papers could soon show girls dressing up as firefighters and boys watering plants after one of the country's largest education companies launched plans to tackle gender bias. Pearson, which owns the exam board Edexcel and produces resources for schools, today announced guidelines to 'flip' gender stereotypes and 'avoid unconscious bias.' The move, which was developed in close collaboration with The Fawcett Society, will show girls as firefighters, astronauts and mechanics and boys watering plants, baking cakes, playing in a pretend kitchen and performing in a dance competition.(Snip) It comes after research showed that experiences of early gender bias can have
Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 11/24/2020 2:07:04 PM (No. 615305)
It's still gender bias. How about addressing the gender bias in schools, job opening, media, etc.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 11/24/2020 2:13:08 PM (No. 615310)
Pick the top ten Michelin chefs and see how many are "boys" and they're not homosexuals either.
We have a boatload of "girl" astronauts so stop whining. UK textbook publishers should research before yapping.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimboscott 11/24/2020 2:21:57 PM (No. 615321)
Maybe make everything about the brave women in the trenches doing hand-to-hand combat while the men are at home sewing their uniforms...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 11/24/2020 2:23:22 PM (No. 615322)
Boys and girls are both great chefs and bakers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vesicant 11/24/2020 2:23:39 PM (No. 615323)
Just another day in Airstrip One. Memory holes in full operation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 11/24/2020 2:30:00 PM (No. 615328)
This guy is so modern. The US has produced 59 women astronauts with NASA and isn't there a guy on TV (Ace of Cakes) that bakes cakes. This Pearson guy is a little out of touch.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DARling 11/24/2020 2:47:34 PM (No. 615339)
And the UK will continue to import Muslims to rape their women and stab their men. The Muslim "guests" will not have gotten the memo about reversed gender roles.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/24/2020 2:53:34 PM (No. 615342)
Look at you, so brave, so effin' brave.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/24/2020 3:24:20 PM (No. 615361)
Do the people at Pearson not watch The Great British Bakeoff? It's got a lot of male contestants and quite a few of them win. And since Pearson is a UK based company, have they never heard of Gordon Ramsay? As for female astronauts - there's a lot of them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jinx 11/24/2020 4:42:40 PM (No. 615425)
Another form of brainwashing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chillijilli 11/24/2020 5:08:30 PM (No. 615448)
Why would ANYONE concern themselves with who's baking a cake? Helllllo???? This is 2020. The State will determine when you qualify for a cake, and they will then send you what they determine is the best cake for you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Foont 11/24/2020 5:43:38 PM (No. 615478)
The madness that is the spirit of the age just keeps rolling on with no end in sight.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
usmc0302 11/24/2020 6:49:40 PM (No. 615534)
What unadulterated bushwa. I used to think the Brits were very sophisticated. No more, after running into more than a few Brits in Antiqua a few months ago I was convinced that they were morons and accordingly I have become an unabashed Anglophobe.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2020 8:41:31 PM (No. 615612)
Idiots.
I baked cakes since I was a teen, and more, and shoot guns, fly airplanes, drive racing cars, and bake cornbread, and scuba dive, and cave dive, and win long range rifle matches.....and make a pretty decent chili, or steak, or biscuits.
Screw all you morons. A real, educated, accomplished human can do pretty much anything they want. And my sister flew aircraft off aircraft carriers, too, 25 years ago. Where have you fools been?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NYbob 11/24/2020 9:39:56 PM (No. 615645)
2 years into a biden administration and we will all be wistfully remembering a time when cakes were common.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 11/25/2020 6:20:58 AM (No. 615787)
Last time I checked, girls were astronauts and boys were baking cakes.
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Early gender bias can have long-term negative effects such as getting married and raising a family with non-minority children, thus hindering The Great Replacement.