7.Genderization

At first glance, it appears to be the most sexist book ever printed, made all the worse for the fact that it wasaimed at the next generation. In fact, many reviewers at the time took it for just that, and cursorycommentary across the web even today treats it as a laughable fossil of a bygone era, handling it with equalparts outraged indignation and how-far-we’ve-come relief.But what many missed, even in 1970, is that the man who wrote and illustrated the book was WhitneyDarrow, Jr., whose father founded Princeton University Press and whose satirical cartoons graced the NewYorker for nearly fifty years between 1933 and 1982. When Darrow died in 1999, a New YorkTimes obituary called him “a witty, gently satiric cartoonist” and “one of the last of the earlyNewYorker cartoonists,” part of the same milieu as James Thurber, Charles Addams, and Peter Arno.307 She Culture CRT: Genderization