Sugar and spice – but is it all nice?

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This starchy division between boyish and girly, between snails and puppy dogs’ tails and sugar and spice, is reinforced on social media, in films, books and by parents. I don’t remember it being like this when I was growing up in the 1970s: so what’s happened in the intervening years?

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