Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.
Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.
