|
It's not a book, but I have serious issues with the nursery rhyme, "Goosey goosey gander."
For those of you who might not know it, it goes:
"Goosey goosey gander,
Where shall I wander?
Upstairs and downstairs
And in my lady's chamber.
There I met an old man
Who would not say his prayers.
So I took him by the left leg
And threw him down the stairs."
Firstly, why are we talking to toddler's about "wandering" in lady's "chambers?" They're clearly too young for any of that, and is not the sort of lesson I want a nursery rhyme to teach them. Let them learn about it in the playground when they're 10 like everyone else.
And secondly, do we really want to promote the kind of religious intolerance that encourages you to throw non-believers down the stairs? Not a good lesson for the modern world.
Or am I reading too much into it?
|