Last night the Girls' Brigade began work on their nativity musical play.  This year someone from their church is organising this, which is great.  My gripe, and it happens every year, is that all the characters, apart from Mary, are male - there is a census man, a male angel called Foghorn Fred, even the generic people are referred to as 'he' rather than 'they.'  Hopefully by next week the script will have been suitably amended - so we will have a census person and Foghorn Freda.  What is more sad, is that most people in churches just don't get it.  When the evidence seems to be that our Sunday Schools, like our churches, have more girls than boys, then it's about time our drama scripts reflected this.  Why should the girls have to be non-speaking angels or narrators if they aren't the 'chosen one' who gets to be Mary by dint of her blond hair and blue yes? Grumble, mumble, rant.