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Posted by Bill S on February 7, 2008 at 12:00:18 pm EST
In reply to People prefer videogames to the outdoors posted by Bill S on February 5, 2008 at 7:48:13 pm EST

Jimbo,
"The Daring Book for Girls" is very different from "Dangerous Book for Boys". I picked up a copy for Barb when it came out, and she almost threw it out the first day (or actually, threatened to throw it at me). It has such "daring" articles as "How to tie a Sari", "Jacks" (the game that girls use to play when the boys were playing marbles", and "Japanese T-shirt Folding". The "Climbing" article is on climbing trees and ropes, not rock climbing or ice climbing. The "Hiking" article starts with such daring advice as "head for a trail head", "look at the trees", "avoid poison ivy", and a three and a half line description of how to make a walking stick. It describes topo lines as "the mysterious squiggly lines on the map". It does have an article on "Changing a Tire", which, given the traffic on the roads these days, I will agree is pretty daring. Then again, that's why we have cell phones and the auto club. The "Daring Girls Guide to Danger" lists riding a roller coaster, have a scary movie festival in your living room, wearing high heels, dying your hair purple, and trying sushi (ok, it does also include white water rafting with a guide service and riding a zip line in a rain forest).

It is probably "daring" for the way most middle-class girls are raised in our present society (East Oakland and Richmond, CA, are a different story). But the girls are getting shortchanged, I'm sorry to say, even at the super discount that Borders and Barnes&Noble are sellin the book.

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