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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.
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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”.
I once had to 'chair' a meeting because a member of the public had heard one of our staff talking to a female colleague in a manner which, said member of the public felt was degrading. The fact that it was a private conversation between 2 adults and the female in question was not offended in the slightest did not make any difference. I was ordered to bring the parties together, reprimand the male and apologise, on behalf of the Civil Service, to the member of the public, the accent IMO should be on the word 'member'.
