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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great tool to teach how prejudice happens!, March 17, 2003

By	Mr. Raymond Ball "rayzor30" (West Seneca, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This book is obviously chauvanistic- it seems like it should be from 1950, not 1970. Sexual prejudices are blatantly presented as if that is the way the world is. Written for toddlers it tells how men and women should have different roles eg. doctors and nurses. However it is a great tool for teachers or parents to use to show how opinions are molded even at a very young age. I use it with my 5th graders every year to illustrate how children are effected by the different media to which they are exposed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Glad That's In The Past!, April 28, 2006

By	Silly Sister (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious satire...and yes, it's SATIRE., May 31, 2009

By	M. Price "exeter25" (Albany, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.