![]() ![]() One way to discourage rigid sex roles is to actually teach children the vast array of behaviors to be found across species. I don't mind the fanciful, but I balk at the wrong. And "hanging about" is the thing: the males don't do the hunting for the pride, and lion society is matriarchal, so if anyone was trying to enforce behavior, it would be the Queen. ![]() There aren't usually a lot of grown males lions in a pride, mostly the boys leave around age 3. Vere, in some ways I like your book, but the particular masculine stereotype that your whole book is built on doesn't apply to the species you selected. ![]() It's not that I'm in favor of heavily gendered roles: my specific exception is to using the male as default, even when the male doesn't exhibit the behaviors one has selected the animal character for in the first place. But, when authors write about lions as hunters, and then only illustrate with male lions, I am sorely vexed. Here is one of my inconsistencies: I am willing to accept athropomorphized critters writing poetry and talking and so forth, I'm good. ![]()
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