I increasingly realise that one of the things I'll have to struggle against when I have children is the tidal wave of awful gender stereotyping. There's a campaign group against it called PinkStinks which campaigns against the pushing of young girls into sparkly pink princess roles.
I find it funny because in some ways I aspire to be a giant 1950s gender stereotype. I married relatively young. I want to be a stay at home mum. I like baking. I don't like wearing trousers. I actually own and frequently wear a pink floral pinny. I'm interested in traditionally women's mitzvot and would like them to be re-examined by non-Orthodox movements. However, those cards just make me despair. In some ways "Jewish women should be at home baking challah and raising children whilst the men are at shul" would be better than "boys do the active Jewish stuff and girls are pretty and passive and can't read Hebrew script".
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I find it funny because in some ways I aspire to be a giant 1950s gender stereotype. I married relatively young. I want to be a stay at home mum. I like baking. I don't like wearing trousers. I actually own and frequently wear a pink floral pinny. I'm interested in traditionally women's mitzvot and would like them to be re-examined by non-Orthodox movements. However, those cards just make me despair. In some ways "Jewish women should be at home baking challah and raising children whilst the men are at shul" would be better than "boys do the active Jewish stuff and girls are pretty and passive and can't read Hebrew script".