The Time I Called Out a Children’s Book Author For Letting Girls Down

To my shock, he actually responded

Darcy Reeder
GEN
Published in
6 min readJun 17, 2019

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AA few years back, I read a children’s book about the moon landing to my then-3-year-old daughter. It’s a great book in so many ways. But one thing stood out to me: Men.

Men, men, men. The word men over and over, in glowing terms, and nowhere a mention of anybody…

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Darcy Reeder
GEN
Writer for

Empathy for the win! Published in Gen, Human Parts, Heated, Tenderly —Feminism, Sexuality, Veganism, Anti-Racism, Parenting. She/They