There was a revealing meltdown on the fringes of Victorian politics during the week that you might have missed. A preposterous news story declared that based upon a university study into gender identification, local councils were about to ban Thomas the Tank Engine and Winnie the Pooh as well as the words “boy” and “girl”.
Of course none of this was right; not the interpretation of the study in question, not the response of local governments, not the impending abolition of Winnie and Thomas. No nouns were to be decommissioned.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/christians-all-in-a-huff-about-thomas-the-tank-engine-while-real-threat-to-children-is-ignored-20180525-p4zhlr.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/christians-all-in-a-huff-about-thomas-the-tank-engine-while-real-threat-to-children-is-ignored-20180525-p4zhlr.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed