Friday, December 06, 2019


Mr Men at centre of sexism row as feminist accuses Mr Clever of 'mansplaining'

It was meant as an innocuous joke to amuse young children. But on Monday Mr Men found itself at the centre of a sexism storm when a feminist academic condemned a gag as an example of "mansplaining".

The claims centre on a conversation between Mr Clever and Little Miss Curious, and a pun about the Forth Bridge in Scotland.

An exasperated Mr Clever explains the Unesco site is so-called because of the Forth River, after Little Miss Curious asks “what happened to the First, the Second and the Third Bridges”

It resulted in a backlash from PhD student Shelby Judge. She accused Roger Hargreaves’ long-running series of perpetuating “antiquated gender roles” and branded its illustrated characters part of a “sexist iconography”.

The 24-year-old academic said Mr Clever’s clarifying comment in the book, Mr Men in Scotland, is an example “mansplaining”, and said the book was telling girls they “need to be stupid”.

The publishers dismissed her concern, saying the pun by the sightseeing fictional creations was nothing more than the characters getting up to their “usual antics”.

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4 comments:

Bill R. said...

Mr. Clever and Little Miss Butthurt!

Bird of Paradise said...

Lets see there is a book about her Little MISS BOSSY

Stan B said...

Wait, if women are "strong, independent, and don't need no man" then how it it "punching down" to make jokes at their expense? It's at worst "punching sideways" and, if all I've heard about how bestest ever women are these days, it's definitely "punching up!"

Anonymous said...

a 24 year old academic
Go out and get some life experience rather then trying to lecture and virtue signal