I found a grammer book for kids from the 1970s with some very telling images. How else can children learn gender in French than through patriarchal gender roles? And they will remember them both: patriarchy and French. Thank you school for facilitating a sexist welcome into the French symbolic order.
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it's funny you know - whenever i think of gender roles and how i first pictured them i remember my sister's 5th grade english coursebook, i was enthused boys were so masculine and girls so feminine, like something i had never encountered before. it was a lacanian moment so to say.
now if i think about it, I also had this sort of "gender revelation" but with a learning-Russian book. All those little slavic beauties were beautifuly drawn and dressed up in folkloric costumes, they looked so detached from everything I knew. I think I understood them as completly alienated from my condition. That we poor Romanian socialist kids can never be so cool and so boyish or girlish as they were.
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