It's an opinion piece in the Daily Mail, and therefore (in my bleeding heart liberal-commie opinion) a non-story.
I'm surprised the article didn't blame Gordon Brown or the Labour Government for it...
Anyway, it's a story about some proffesor in Canada who has two much time on her hands. One of her points was that there are few girl charachters. Well, at the time the books were written and when the TV series was first made, boys were traditionaly seen as the gender that loved trains and wanted to be train drivers. She also pointed out that the female charachters were "Bossy know-it-alls". I imagine if you asked a 6 year old boy what he thought of girls, he'd say that they are "Bossy and yucky." It's just pandering to the intended audience.
I'm surprised the article didn't blame Gordon Brown or the Labour Government for it...
Anyway, it's a story about some proffesor in Canada who has two much time on her hands. One of her points was that there are few girl charachters. Well, at the time the books were written and when the TV series was first made, boys were traditionaly seen as the gender that loved trains and wanted to be train drivers. She also pointed out that the female charachters were "Bossy know-it-alls". I imagine if you asked a 6 year old boy what he thought of girls, he'd say that they are "Bossy and yucky." It's just pandering to the intended audience.
