The author's concepts of what boys and girls are: "Boys are handsome. Girls are beautiful. Boys are doctors. Girls are nurses. Boys are pilots. Girls are stewardesses."
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious satire...and yes, it's SATIRE.,
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This review is from: I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! (Hardcover)
People saying this book is "horrible" need to read up a little on Darrow. For decades he was a satire cartoonist for the New Yorker. The publishers on the other hand took it seriously and didn't get the joke, pushing it as a serious children's book when his humor had for a long time been making fun of the same subjects.Subtlety is often lost on the people who pull the strings...and as it turns out, the people who review their products.
18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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I'm Glad That's In The Past!,
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This review is from: I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! (Hardcover)
I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy of this very rare book so I could show my daughter the sort of attitudes that were prevalent, not only when I was a girl in the fifties and sixties, but when she was born in 1979.In the months before I graduated from high school, we were barraged with catalogs and pamphlets and flyers in our homeroom. The boys got enticements from colleges and universities, and recruiting literature from various branches of the military. The girls got unsolicited literature from the local furniture stores showing the many styles of hope chests available, and from jewelers selling engagement rings, china and silver. I kid you not. When the subject comes up, and I try to tell women younger than 30 about all the obstacles the women of my generation had to hurdle - obstacles both real and perceived, both external and internal, both surmountable and not - I usually get a "so-what" sort of a reaction. They just don't have any idea what we were made to believe our limits were, what our goals should be, and what were the lines we shouldn't try to cross. The only reason you've come a long way, baby, is because the generation of women, who are now probably looking a bit like the over-the-hill-gang to you, battled it out over attitudes like the ones immortalized in this book. I'll never give up my copy - it will forever remind me of just how far we've come!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A piece of history,
By Hilary P (Scarsdale, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! (Hardcover)
I own this book - it's the one I have from when I was a little girl (I was born in 1968). It was one of my favorite books as a child and I saved it so that one day I could read it to my own kids. I took it out the other day to read to my three-year old daughter and could not believe how chauvinistic it was. "Boys build houses, girls keep houses. Boys fix things, Girls use things boys fix, etc..." But I think it is a fabulous history lesson for my daughter - - a way to see how things used to be and how things have changed so much since I was little. I'm keeping this book forever.
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