Hi FNCrazy,
thanks so much for writing about this. this big time annoys me!! i can feel myself getting to the rage point inside all the time when things like this come up and really have to work to control it. i hate discrimination of every sort and it just seems so simple to me to look at things from a human perspective instead of a gender perspective! not everything should be gender neutral of course because some people need different things but for crying out loud! something like parenting is so easy to aim at both genders! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
well done for writing that letter and for keeping it polite! i really wish more people would do that. the only time i got up the courage to complain about something like that was when i had to repeatedly go to the male porn section on the top shelf of the newsagents to get my lesbian lifestyle magazine. i mean it has stuff in it about films, book reviews, current affairs, politics etc etc and its in the porn section?? hello! apart from that women are generally smaller than men and i have to bounce up and down in front of everyone to reach the stupid shelf. so i asked the manager to let the head office know a formal complaint had been made about it because he blamed it on them. managed to dissociate in the process so i didnt exactly feel it was me saying the words and it wont make any difference but at least i did my bit.
again well done to you for doing yours! and btw, by my definition you can now proudly call yourself a feminist. lol. modern feminism being about accepting and catering to the diversity in life etc. hehehe.
ok thats an end to the preaching! i promise!