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[Abasmajor]

My personal favourite, politically incorrect quotation is included in "The Book of the BSA Air Rifle (llustrated)" published before the first world war to accompany the LJ / BSA air rifles.

The paragraph in question discusses the value of air rifle shooting in schools and itself quotes from a report from the Medical Officer (Education) London County Council, for the year ending March 31st 1907.

" The tendency of girls to nurse dolls or of boys to play soldiers is absolutely natural. The failure to exhibit these normal tastes may be held to indicate mental defect".

The booklet also suggests that elementary shooting techniques would no doubt soon become part of the currIiculum and compulsorily taught in all council and similar schools.

Regards

Brian

[45flint]

Crosman literature in the 1920s right after WW1 talked about air rifle shooting preparing boys in case the patriotic need came again. Ended up to be true too soon.

[Garvin]

My personal favourite, politically incorrect quotation is included in "The Book of the BSA Air Rifle (llustrated)" published before the first world war to accompany the LJ / BSA air rifles.

The paragraph in question discusses the value of air rifle shooting in schools and itself quotes from a report from the Medical Officer (Education) London County Council, for the year ending March 31st 1907.

" The tendency of girls to nurse dolls or of boys to play soldiers is absolutely natural. The failure to exhibit these normal tastes may be held to indicate mental defect".

The booklet also suggests that elementary shooting techniques would no doubt soon become part of the currIiculum and compulsorily taught in all council and similar schools.

Regards

Brian

The offending passages here, Brian. Pity the poor boy who didn't enjoy playing soldiers (perhaps because his dad was killed during the Boer War?)... he would have been teased mercilessly by his peers, their certainty of his "mental defect" backed by a Medical Officer, no less. They were tough times, no room for namby pamby pacifists!