It’s about time we hold teachers and schools responsible for updating the homework they dole out to young students. It’s 2017, and the assignments should reflect the times, a.k.a. the slow but sure dismantling of the patriarchy. It’s only right.
But Yasmin proved that even when handed an outdated, sexist homework assignment, she could answer correctly for the assignment and for the year that we live in.
Let’s all take a page out of Yasmin’s book, as it seems to be much more updated than the book of worksheets from which her teacher took this dumb assignment.
The assignment asked the students for words with “ur” in the middle.
It provides a hint on the right, and this is where it gets gross.
“Hospital lady” it says. Hospital. Lady.
Her answer? “Surgeon.”
The entire Internet leaped out of their seats and applauded.
It also made us question our own outdated biases. Your brain went straight to “nurse,” didn’t it?
Yasmin, though, the girl’s ahead of the curve. Both of her parents are surgeons, so it would stand to reason that “hospital lady” translates directly to “surgeon” for her.
Also, it’s 2017, and the fact that “hospital lady” was the assumed description for “nurse” is extremely problematic.
Or “hospital men”!
The idea of gendered jobs is so outdated it’s insane.
1997! Twenty years ago, “hospital lady” was apparently an acceptable descriptor.
But it’s 2017, and that sort of sexism should no longer be a part of our everyday lives and especially the lives of our children.
