[Radical_childcare] [Fwd: [faf] Fwd: Call for action - please circulate]

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Subject: [faf] Fwd: Call for action - please circulate
From:    "Nimda" <nimda.wil at tiscali.co.uk>
Date:    Mon, July 13, 2009 7:10 am
To:      ukfeministaction at yahoogroups.co.uk
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(forwarded as requested)

Kaarina wrote on our message board:

/"I was shopping in Sainsbury's the other day and they were selling 
activity books for boys and girls. The boys book was full of interesting
adventures plus of course fighting and hero quests etc. The girls book 
was boring in the extreme (At least to me!) Playing housey, picnics,
dolls, beauty stuff, bikini's and sunbathing, so called girly chatter! I 
was appalled and wondered if you knew where I should complain about this
blatant sexism. We are going backwards I think! The books come from 
http://www.mombooks.com/busterbooks even the title of that is sexist in 
its implication."/ Link to thread
http://www.meetup.com/London-Feminist-Freethinkers/messages/boards/thread/7258025



I replied:

"I don't know off hand without researching, but I will do what I can and 
if we get as many women as possible to help, either by going into the 
stores, questioning the staff and putting in complaints it would make a 
start.

If you are on any other message boards, forums or networking sites, 
perhaps you could spread this information and ask them to take action  and
if you have any useful information, contacts or ideas please share  them
with us and anyone else you are in contact with.

Sue