A) How did this get by all the readers and editors at the publishing house? Do they not employ anyone with a set of tits?

Yes! Acknowledge that some boys find then attractive, but not all, and it’s ok to find them attractive, but their purpose is to feed babies. And also “look but don’t touch”.

As a Tripple D since 16, the reason this is SUCH a missed opportunity, is big young boobs are the very beginning of the use of sexual warfare against women. Slut shamming, sexualizing and our very nature as young girls is placed entirely around the size of our tits and how men are instructed to use them as a yardstick…

How isn’t he being sued by Pepe’s creator?

The thing about Usborne is that every American Elementary School and Public Library had a few of their books when I was growing up in the 80s, and the text (if not the books themselves) seemed to have been imported verbatim from the UK. I remember recipes that called for salad cream and digestive biscuits, and science…

They did however, delete this passage:

i remember being 5 and the neighborhood boy touched my private downstairs area without my consent (pretty sure even if he had asked i would’ve said no thanks please leave me alone). i did everything i was supposed to- told my parents and they talked to the boys parents. the boy’s parents decided to not believe it was…

Saying women have breasts so they look attractive and grown-up is kind of getting things back-to-front, you could say.

It might be because they are sold via annoying MLM Facebook posts, but Usbourne books always seem a little low-rent and light on research to me. Like a book of the answers you give your kids about topics you vaguely know something about, “Well, in the rainforest there are lots of snakes and different kinds of frogs…

My theory: no one actually looked at that. They got a bunch of manuscripts to review, skimmed it, didn’t see anything blatantly wrong like a chunk of missing pages or ink smeared all over the back cover, and approved it. They probably figured no one would fuck up this badly in writing a children’s book.

For writing books, apparently...

I feel like what they wanted to say was that breasts are a visual signal of developing sexual maturity, and then when they tried to dumb it down they also ran it through their unconscious bias filter.

This is so gross. No wonder men grow up feeling entitled to female bodies — the idea we exist to look pretty for them is propagated everywhere, right down to books for 10-year-olds.

Here is what the author, Alex Frith, had to say when asked for a comment:

Silly pervert, tits are for looks.

sounds like there could’ve been objections but the higher up dipshit said “no, we print it as is, conversation over”

You can tell someone did look at it and added the “all titties matter” last sentence as a way of softening it, I guess?

I’m genuinely surprised. Not because some idiot wrote that, but because Usborne usually has their shit together slightly more. Like guys, you really need to replace whoever looked at that and went “this is fine, and will cause no controversy whatsoever”

Mrs Party Llama is a breast cancer survivor who has chosen to remain flat. You can imagine the reaction on her “Flat and Fabulous” Facebook group when this came to light a few days ago.

Titties: baby tested, pervert approved.