A dad wrote to his daughter’s school to call out sexism, after hearing about the stereotypically gendered activities the girls and boys were asked to do one afternoon.

“When Ruby left for school yesterday it was 2017, but when she returned home in the afternoon she was from 1968,” he joked on 6 December..

“I know this to be the case as Ruby informed me that the ‘girls’ in Year 6 would be attending the school library to get their hair and make-up done on Monday afternoon while the ‘boys’ are going to Bunnings [DIY hardware store].”

“Are you able to search the school buildings for a rip in the space-rime continuum?” the dad sarcastically continued.

“Perhaps a faulty Flux Capacitor hidden away in the girls toilet block?

“I look forward to this being rectified and my daughter and other girls at the school being returned to this millennium where school activities are not divided sharply along gender lines.”

Many agreed with the dad and believed the gendered activities were unacceptable.

It infuriates me that there are people responsible for *educating our children* who think this is remotely OK
Utterly perfect. I personally loved the time travel aspect. But srsly, i am a lady person and i love makeup to an unhealthy degree but I’d be pissed off AF if I’d been made to do that or if it had been my daughter

December 8, 2017
I don’t know what Bunnings is, but the school is wrong to spend time doing hair and makeup with the girls. If I was in a library at that age, I’d be more interested the books.

December 6, 2017