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Published · transcript-backedKatherine Rundell: uncertainty
11 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words
“There is a difficulty that there is a self-fulfilling prophecy in saying boys don’t read books about girls, and I don’t know how we get around that problem.”
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- Katherine Rundell
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- uncertainty
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- 11 Jan 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Should we be getting boys to read more stories about girls? Or are we at an optimum there? We should, of course, get boys to read more stories about girls. The data constantly reports that boys are, by and large, reading stories about boys, and girls are, by and large, reading stories about both genders. There is a difficulty that there is a self-fulfilling prophecy in saying boys don’t read books about girls, and I don’t know how we get around that problem. Children’s movies — again, I know that’s a fraught term, but what would normally be called children’s movies — what’s your favorite one?…
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