stereotypes of women

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:33 PM -0300 7/19/05, borba.rodrigo wrote:
>Dear menbers,
>
>this week I'm working with my English students on stereotypes of 
>women and men in society. My objective with this is to make them 
>aware of stereotyped views of gender in society and make them aware 
>of this fact and help them develop a critical position towards the 
>subject. To accomplish this, I've been collecting newspaper articles 
>and publicity ads. However, I realised that the question of 
>stereotypes has been posted to the igala list some months ago. If 
>I'm not mistaken, it was a message about some kind of fruit peeler 
>whose instructions involved stereotyped views of women as housewives 
>and the like. Does anyone still have this message? Unfortunately I 
>can't remember who posted it at first. If anyone still has it, would 
>you please sent it to me?
>
>thanks a lot
>
>Rodrigo

Here it is; it was a juicer, not a peeler.
Larry

On Apr 6, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Lucy Horder wrote:

>Dear List members,
>
>  Recently, I decided to buy a juicer. According to the literature, 
>juicers are a great way to fit in your RDA of 5 portions of fruit 
>and veg if you're like me and don't really enjoy eating fruit.
>
>  The juicer I ended up buying included a leaflet that gave some tips 
>on healthy eating, as well as a few recipes and ideas. I was stunned 
>by the inclusion of the following paragraphs in this guidance:
>
>  "The average woman - say someone who weighs 10 and a half stone - 
>uses in an average day around 2000-2200 calories. Of those calories, 
>1400-1500 will be burned by her body performing its everyday bodily 
>activities - heart pumping, tissue renewing, general maintenance and 
>functions.
>
>  A mere 600-700 calories will be burned by her preparing and taking 
>the children to school, going to work all day, cooking tea for her 
>children and dinner for her husband, followed by perhaps an hours 
>ironing!"
>
>  No mention is made, incidentally, of men who might wish to eat more 
>healthily, and the kinds of activities that they might engage in to 
>help them burn off calories (although perhaps that's for the best...)
>
>  I have written to the manufacturers and protest heavily at the 
>inclusion of this statement in their leaflet, but, unsurprisingly, 
>have not yet had a reply. I'd be interested to hear some comments 
>from you all if you are as alarmed by this whole episode as I am.
>
>  Yours (fuming),
>
>  Lucy
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