7.Genderization

I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl!by Maria Popova“Boys fix things. Girls need things fixed.”In 1970, when the second wave of feminism was reaching critical mass and women were raising their voicesfor equality across the “social media” of the day decades before the internet as we know it, when evenPete Seeger was rallying for a gender-neutral pronoun, an odd children’s book titled I’m Glad I’m a Boy!:I’m Glad I’m a Girl! (public library) began appearing in bookstores.It began innocently enough:Hmm, okay… (Butstill.):305 She Culture CRT: Genderization