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Though, I have to say, in massage school, when we started using communication text books, they came from the states, and quite shockingly *everything* in them was gendered. In really offensive ways. The class was in an uproar about it and quite pissed off. None of us wanted to use the text books because it did things like call some cultures "feminine" and some cultures "masculine" based on cultural traits. The more socialist countries were "feminine" and the more "independant" cultures were "masculine"

That was done with pretty much everything in the text books for that class. The teacher apologised profusely and said he would not use them if they weren't on the list by the board. He suggested we write. So we did as a class.

But if that's any indication of how things are being taught these days in the states? Sheesh. No wonder.