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11-09-2006, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Damon Rondeau The middle pic redefines the term "bow hair". | so german bows ARE good for something...
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11-09-2006, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve Killingsworth Never a dull moment in parenting. | Here is one for her!  |
11-09-2006, 05:43 AM
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11-09-2006, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield In terms of teaching how to avoid racial stereotyping... ? | HUh? This for me?
It's from Dr. Seuss's book "Oh The Places You Will Go!"
I read it to my daughter every night.
It's the bright places where the BOOM BANDS are playing! |
11-12-2006, 02:54 PM
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11-14-2006, 02:36 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | And I remember that books I was given as a kid, included "golliwogs" and other offensive stereotypes - in fact children's books are often the worst, when it comes to ingraining stereotypes - as people don't look at them critically in the same way they would at a book aimed at adults.
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11-14-2006, 10:04 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Um, guys? It's a ****ing Dr. Seuss picture, for god's sake. What's next...someone's gonna complain that the Lorax looks like Wilfred Brimley?  Let it go. |
11-15-2006, 01:27 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | It was just a thow-away joke - so we were talking about inappropriate images for children and it struck me as ironic that we try to keep them away from images of nakedness, but are happy for them to grow up with archaic racial stereotypes...
I think this is a serious point though - as I said - I can remember kindergarten books which were horrendously racist !
I'm not complaining - just pointing out an interesting cultural "dissonance"...?
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11-15-2006, 03:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Okay, back to what's really important... where the hell is WARPEDBATON, anyway?
C'mon, people...FOCUS. |
11-15-2006, 07:13 AM
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11-15-2006, 08:19 AM
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11-15-2006, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield You're not opposed to a bit of "Free Blowing" are you...? | Well now that's another subject altogether.....  |
01-17-2010, 07:59 AM
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Some things never change. Bruce beats me at grouch...
Marcus beats me at sick.
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01-17-2010, 08:10 PM
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01-17-2010, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton  Marcus beats me at sick. | Wow. I am humbled and honored. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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