This rhyme is riddled with sexist attitudes and outdated prejudice. Although it starts well with Jack and Jill sharing domestic chores equally, the tenure of the rhyme then changes – notice that Jack’s injuries are described in detail whereas Jill’s injuries are glossed over as if they weren’t relevant. Moreover Jack is clearly largely unhurt, his ability to trot and caper entirely undiminished. For all we know, Jill could be laying out there with major injuries untended while Jack is in bed enjoying full treatment - although it should be noted that vinegar and brown paper is no longer recognised as suitable treatment for serious head trauma

This apparently innocuous rhyme is riddled with gender stereotyping and sexism. Firstly Miss Muffet's marital status is entirely irrelevant to the narrative. Then there is the suggestion that women are unable to deal with unexpected situations and are inherently fearful of small insects. Moreover it has been scientically proven that women have the ability to multitask and therefore Ms Muffet would clearly easily cope with eating and dealing with insects simultaneously. There is also the matter of the curds and whey which should only be eaten as part of a balanced diet or a lifetime of dieting and bingeing could ensue.


Now it is obvious from this rhyme that George has unresolved weight issues, perhaps as a result of a childhood trauma involving a cucumber and this may have led to his tendency to treat women as mere sex objects and to experience difficulties relating to his peer group. Neuro-Linguistic reprogramming almost certainly required.



This attack on a deprived mother's use of physical restraint on her many children fails to take account the almost total abrogation of responsibility by males within the shoe community and the lack of economic empowerment and self-actualistion of single mothers in general. She is further pilloried for the poor diet despite the unavailibility of organic bread, blueberries and those lovely little Gruyere and smoked salmon parcels within deprived economic communities. It is also implied that living in a shoe on a sink estate is a lifestyle choice rather than one forced on her by the military/industrial domination of Western capitalism since Thatcher.

In this essentially non-sensical and largely pointless rhyme, we learn of a bovine exhibiting clear symptoms of mad cow disease brought on by intensive farming enforced by the agri-business hegemony. The anthropomorphic interpretation of behaviours by the dog, the fish and the kitchen equipment simply reinforces pseudo-magical thinking which can lead to belief in such things as paternal 'God' figures and eventually knocking on people's doors trying to sell them The Watchtower.