Oh really, Little Miss Thornberry

An AcAdemic study from the University of Lincoln — don’t they have anything better to do? — revealed that the much-loved Little miss books by Roger Hargreaves are sexist.

emily Thornberry mP agreed, because ‘Little’ in the names implied that women are somehow ‘less’ than the mr men and, indeed, the men.

The researchers found that the female characters had less dialogue than the mr men, that they did more domestic tasks and needed to be rescued more often than the mr men and by the mr men.

i want to be honest here. Having a quiet morning doing some light housework before mr Jolly or perhaps even mr Tickle ring up to say ‘let’s go for lunch’ is my idea of utter heaven. There’s nothing demeaning about that, darling.

When asked which Little miss character she might be, Thornberry suggested ms Trouble. But i beg to differ. The Shadow Foreign Secretary is surely a dead ringer for Little miss dotty, who lives in nonsenseland with mr Silly and mr nonsense.

no prizes for guessing who they are.