You know that sexism everyone’s going on about. The one that everyone agrees is a Very Bad Thing but most certainly doesn’t happen anywhere round here. That one. Well, the thing is, it does happen round here, round there and most other places. It has occurred to me that many of the perpetrators of sexism […]
160/365 If little boys must play with guns, then make them out of icing
Boy Three contemplates his icing soldier His defenses appear to have been buttercreamed For Boy Three’s birthday my friend Fionaoutdoors offered to make him a cake, something she’s very good at. She asked what kind of cake he’d like and he said: “A gun.”Visions of icing trains, tractors or even dinosaurs fled, leaving sticky trails. Eventually, […]
Do men and women laugh at different things?
Or is it just me? Last night howls of laughter could be heard from the sitting room. And not just from one person – the Panther of News and the full complement of Boys were helpless with mirth. Why? They were watching this advert. And then rewinding it and watching it again.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yTUW92UNI]I watched to see what […]