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stereotype malezyes?or :10?

Even though this page is supposed to be for the lib- eration of females I feel that the males also deserve a page just to show that we haven't forgotten about them completely. Because of this I would like to tell you a— bout a close male friend of mine who is sometimes class- ed as gai but I can assure

'you that he is no more a homosexual than the hunky, chauvanistic men on campus.

As it happens Ro likes to dress-nicely. He cares a— bout his clothes. hair and general appearance. Just be— cause he likes to be neat does not prove he's gai. 0n the contrary he appears as just a good looking guy who likes to look half decent; whether for himself or out to impress others,‘I really don't know so at the moment I am going to ignore his'ego trip' if he has one.

Also. it seems that R. en— joys cooking. That makes him 'gai' for sure doesn't_it?

Really, if people think any girl’that likes to do 50‘ called male jobs is a 'butch' then any guy that likes to cook must be 'gai'.

I guess pretty soon he'll be put in Riverside to try

and rid him of his female(?)7,

tendencies. After all, he can't be normal so this is a warning to all‘guys......e if you cook please do it in the privacy of your own kit— chen with curtains drawn or watch out.

I guess the men have just as hard a time with their

stereotype roles as the women.

However, this can be solved easily enough. Let's call everyone 'it' and ignore th— ‘eir sex! On the other hand maybe we should do whatever job we want, ignore society's idea of right and wrong and then maybe this myth could be cleared up. Good luck to both males and females but

remember that it will be a

struggle but in the end youfll

feel better because of it.

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Keep in there!!!

.Gil Brammer P.S. It's a good job that people don't know that R is a hairdresser_eh? By the way, it also happens that R.

.belongs to the AFL - CIO and

has worked at a number of construction jobs. I wonder?

Training Starts aft Birth

I don't know whether anyone has noticed it or not, but there are even sex discrimin- ations against babies and small children. There is qui- \ te a difference in the way a baby girl and a baby boy are dressed and even played with. p “

Often small babies are dre- ssed in their proper colour (?)7 pink and blue. This is '* about the only way people can tell the boys from the girls at such an early age unless they ask. Now. be— lieve it or not. healthy baby girls are not more frae gile than boys. However, a ’" 'baby boy, is-quite often tre- ated a little rougher than a girl. This makes the little boy a rough and tough image and the little girl a poor fragile being.’

By the time children have reached story book age they. know that the girls are mommies and the boys are daddies. Then the story book really helps torteach them’ their roles. There's mommy home being a housewife and mother while dad is a fire— man, policeman or something of that sort. Little girls < are always told by books, that they are and shduld play mommy or in other words house. However, the boys are not taught to be husbands. Instead they lead a very adventurous life and take

\part in the world, not just

the home.“ _

I believe that the childeen'n story books are changing but they still try and impress children with certain roles. 'If little girls are taught .to play house at an early age, it's very good train- ing. They think that is all there is and so that becomes ~: their main aim in life and ‘ in the end it becomes their life. Of course story books are not the only problem but if this discrimination chan— ges then there is one less cause for inequalities. So a warning to all -- know what your child is reading.

Gil Brammer *