I'm glad I'm a boy, I'm glad you're a girl by Michael Gifford https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb Reactions en-us 2016-10-20 17:37:36 UTC 2025-12-03 03:10:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hotsun.png When was this book written? https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195520 This book kind of seems like something out of the 1960s-1980s, it seems well intended but there are a lot of underlying things that aren't so nice. There are a lot of unfair assumptions that are definitely being challenged (and fairly so). 

This book was written in 1970 as a reaction to the feminist movement of the 1960s.

]]> 2016-10-20 18:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195520 Public consensus on acceptable gender roles back in the 60's-70's are very different than modern ideas, it's interesting to compare the two.    https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195575 2016-10-20 18:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195575 Boys are named bradley, girls are not https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195643 2016-10-20 18:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195643 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195726 "Boys are doctors, girls are nurses" my own mom is a doctor??? Kind of depressing to hear that the book was written by a woman. Goes to show how much gender roles can affect us.]]> 2016-10-20 18:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195726 an example of how culture can change over time https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195796

]]> 2016-10-20 18:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195796 very stereotypical images of boys and girls https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195854

]]> 2016-10-20 18:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195854 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195907 The book showed how gender roles have changed with time]]> 2016-10-20 18:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195907 very good book 10/10 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195923 Sarcasm?]]> 2016-10-20 18:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132195923 A lot of the descriptions are what we would normally think about boys and girls anyways, stereotypical images that have been put into our minds by society, but its a lot different seeing that in writing, where we see that as being really objectable for. https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196068 2016-10-20 18:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196068 feminism https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196155 2016-10-20 18:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196155 Things have changed a lot since this was published for example, many women now have jobs that were primarily male occupations https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196174 2016-10-20 18:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196174 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196180 I THINK THIS BOOK WAS ACCEPTABLE AT THE TIME AND NOW IT IS VERY CONTROVERSIAL AND LIMITING. I GUESS THE MOST TRUE PART WAS THAT BOYS ARE CUB SCOUTS AND GIRLS ARE BROWNIES. EVEN THAT ]]> 2016-10-20 18:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196180 not accurate https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196200 2016-10-20 18:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196200 Inventors thing in particular. https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196400 IN particular, the inventors thing isn't quite accurate at all, but reflects social norms and underlying misogyny in society. Let's take ada lovelace for example...
rosalind frankln, etc.]]> 2016-10-20 18:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196400 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196416 Some gender roles changed since this book came out.]]> 2016-10-20 18:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196416 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196551 A boy wrote the book

]]> 2016-10-20 18:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196551 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196603 This book bothers me ]]> 2016-10-20 18:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196603 some of the names like girls are brides and males are grooms is interesting and not very offensive https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196657 2016-10-20 18:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196657 what is this nonsense https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196686 2016-10-20 18:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196686 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196711 This might be still be believed in developing countries]]> 2016-10-20 18:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196711 How can boys eat, but girls can cook? So how do girls survive without eating? This doesn't make any sense.  https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196815 2016-10-20 18:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196815 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196828 Boys are doctors and girls are nurses???? So many woman doctors in the world. Also, who said being a nurse was worse than being a doctor. Nurses are just as important ]]> 2016-10-20 18:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132196828 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197016 This book is what people believed in back than but now things has change with many changes having to do with gender roles like how boy are doctors and girls are nurses, now girls can also be doctors and boys can also be a nurses.]]> 2016-10-20 18:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197016 unfair assumptions are unfair. https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197040 2016-10-20 18:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197040 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197052 #]]> 2016-10-20 18:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197052 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197055 psychology is too hard

]]> 2016-10-20 18:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197055 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197100 Boys fix things and girls need help fixing things... Hmm...]]> 2016-10-20 18:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197100 the inventors https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197173 doctors 
keeping house and building house
fixing things and need things fixed
were the most offensive pages

]]> 2016-10-20 18:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197173 guy can eat girls can cook https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197176 2016-10-20 18:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197176 Boys invent things, girls use the things boys' invented https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197182 2016-10-20 18:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197182 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197224 "Guys can eat, girls can cook" because it's such a stereotype that girls have to cook for guys]]> 2016-10-20 18:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197224 i really did not like the ones with the jobs, where boys got the better job and women got the less important ones https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197236

]]> 2016-10-20 18:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197236 The "inventors" part is really cringey https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197257 2016-10-20 18:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197257 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197639 "Guys build house girls keep them"]]> 2016-10-20 18:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197639 Also it would be hard to live without eating and only cooking.... https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197646 2016-10-20 18:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197646 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197728 It's crazy to think that this book was written less than 40 years ago. These gender norms, better yet, stereotypes, were accurate and acceptable in the 70's, and that's significant because nowadays those "norms" are controversial. ]]> 2016-10-20 18:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197728 Can confirm https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197929 I am a girl and I do use things that boys invent

]]> 2016-10-20 18:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132197929 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198057 Dude my 3 sisters are doctors, none of my br]]> 2016-10-20 18:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198057 What is an hombre? https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198118 2016-10-20 18:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198118 My mom is in COmp sci https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198180 2016-10-20 18:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198180 Make college great again! https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198202 2016-10-20 18:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198202 Make college great again! https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198284 2016-10-20 18:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198284 Make girls great again! https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198345 2016-10-20 18:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198345 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198555 2016-10-20 18:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198555 . https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198573 only true part is women are mothers and men are fathers]]> 2016-10-20 18:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198573 This video has some great opinions on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198716 2016-10-20 18:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132198716 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132199307 Mr. Gifford, do u use power law?? Or I if I have a 2 does that mean I get a C]]> 2016-10-20 19:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132199307 The book is satire for sure. https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132199491 2016-10-20 19:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132199491 https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132200450 Is there stuff on the test from last unit ?]]> 2016-10-20 19:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/132200450 dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/148214577 2017-01-19 19:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_gifford/h3usag22d6sb/wish/148214577