Comments on: Ten Rules for a Real Girl, 1941

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:24:11 +0000

Yes, I would frame this and hang it in my house- it’s charming. But then, I already have old ads and whatnot framed… as well as photos I pick up at tag-sales of people who I will never know. I just love them.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:06:23 +0000

Who woulda thought?

That pretty much sums up why history fascinates me so — I seem to be constantly surprised, and that surprise doesn’t depend on whether the past is very like the present, or very unlike. In either case, who woulda thought?

By: BYU Women's Services

BYU Women's Services — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:04:13 +0000

I actually really love these. Who woulda thought?

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:09 +0000

My favorite on both lists are the pen-and-ink illustrations.

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:22:29 +0000

I read these to my kids last night. I can’t see the images at my office, but I don’t recall seeing instruction for the boys to pick up their clothes. In my house, the boys’ rooms are messy with toys and some clothes; my daughter’s room is messy too but just with her clothes.

I wear hats. And my kids (lovingly) make fun of me for it. I think they have rhyme they say when they see a man wearing a hat (baseball caps excepted).

By: Researcher

Researcher — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:03:33 +0000

I’ll print this one out for my girls. Nothing objectionable here!

(Of course this was before the end of World War II and the oppression of women due to the demand to get them out of the workforce to make room for all the returning veterans.)

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:52:16 +0000

My 13 year-old will really like the keeping your room neat and clean bit.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:05:21 +0000

I hadn’t noticed that, Tamary. You’re right, as long as nobody thinks that picking up clothes equals housework equals girl-specific. (Grrr–they’d better not!)

By: Tamary

Tamary — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:43:47 +0000

Silly icons. That smiley face is supposed to be a numeral 8 with a closing parenthesis afterward.

[Fixed -- but I'm so tickled to see that I'm not the only one to be tripped up by them that I'm leaving this, unless you say you'd rather I deleted it. -- AEP]

By: Tamary

Tamary — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:43:08 +0000

I was interested to see that 3 items on the boys’ list (#3, 4, 8 ) are boy-specific even now, while none of the items on the girls’ list are really girl-specific. (Depending on how you interpret “lovely” in #8, I suppose.)