Moment 45: Meet The Trick

Meet The Trick. A way to talk to your children about the patriarchy. To help them understand we’re all being tricked into thinking particular things about boys and girls, women and men.

I learned about the trick from Robert Webb - his six year old daughter describes the trick as “the thing that makes women get rubbish jobs and makes men sad”

My little boy is 5 and this has become our family code word for gender nonsense and you can use it too! We have introduced the idea to his grandparents too. Giving language to complex ideas is powerful.

Without much conversation at all my little boy could tell me all the ways he sees the Trick tricking him and his friends.

❌ womens are beautiful and men are not

❌ mens drives cars and womens don’t

❌ boys can’t wear colourful nail varnish

❌ only boys can play football

❌ boys can’t have long hair

❌ boys don’t like acting, only girls

He’s FIVE, lives in a country where gender equality is priority and well, I’m his mum! This stuff runs so deep - we have to listen, be pro-active and role model our asses off. Has your child ever noticed the Trick?

Will you try it?

www.the-trick.co

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