What do you see in the picture, what do you think this story is about?
Evy was looking forward to Halloween and to wearing her favourite
superhero costume to school: Spiderman.
However, when she got to school, some children told her she couldn’t be
spiderman because she is a girl. They told her “Spiderman is for boys.”
How do you think Evy replied?
Evy replied, “Spiderman is not for boys, Spiderman is for everyone.”
Evy’s mum posted this story on social media and said, “Costumes are for EVERYONE! Stop teaching your kids they’re gender specific and let them like what they like”
- -Why do you think some children think Spiderman is for boys?
- - Where have the children got that idea from? Has anyone ever said to you,
“Spiderman is for boys”?
- - What is this an example of? (a gender stereotype... what is the
definition of a gender stereotype?)
- - What superheroes can you think of? Are they both male and female? Do you
think the numbers of famous superheroes is equal to the number of female
superheroes? Why not?
- - What can we do about gender stereotypes, can we just ignore them, do
they affect us, do they matter?
- - “Stop teaching your kids they’re gender specific” what does this mean?
- - Is it ok to be gender specific if you want to be? Is mum saying we
shouldn’t teach children to be boys or girls? Do you agree, or disagree? What do you think we should teach children to be?
- - You could argue that Spiderman is gender specific- it's “Spiderman,” not
“Spiderwoman” and it’s not “Spiderperson”. Is that ok?
- - What do you think Spiderman would say to Evy if he heard abut this
story?
- - What is the law in the UK that this relates to?
- - Would Evy hear at our school that Spiderman is for boys?
- - Why is this about no outsiders?
- - Which British value is this about?
No Outsiders: We belong here by Andrew Moffat (scheme of work for primary schools)
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