Signal Boost: petition Disney to keep Brave’s Merida marketing true to movie
‘Brave’ creator blasts Disney for ‘blatant sexism’ in princess makeover:
!["I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains"](http://hoydenabouttown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lego-friends.jpg)
“I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”
“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children
Femmostroppo Reader December 2, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Wordless Friday: Toy Store Abominations
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Mailbag: Junk mail and Code breaches
I was poking through my junk mail, which has multiplied with the advent of the Season of Consumerism. And I thought I’d share some tidbits. Dick Smith: anyone for “massage”? I’m guessing this is even legal in Texas! “Rechargable Hydra Massager HG10. Great for when you’re on the go and need an invigorating massage experience.” [...]
Girl Dolls That Look Like Actual Girls
Sadly, Feral Cheryl is no more, but Australians will have another alternative to Bratz and Barbie as of tomorrow – Australian Girl Doll [warning: annoying website sound] is hitting the shelves. It looks like the launch will be at Toyworld Subiaco. These dolls look like girls. Not babies or late adolescents, but girls. And the [...]
Marry, Shag or Cliff: Inaugural Whoydnesday Edition
I have made an executive decision: every now and then Wednesdays around here will be Whodnesdays. This was prompted by paralysis: because Lauredhel and I couldn’t decide from the plethora of choice available for a general Whoniverse Marry, Shag or Chuck Off A Cliff (MSC) edition – who could we have possibly left out? Far [...]
Newsflash: Toys Now Indistinguishable From Satire
Because I couldn’t make this up. Not if I tried. Struts Runway Magic. It’s a plastic equine! It’s an unfeasibly insubstantial fashion model! It comes in clearly delineated racial types! It’s – Struts Runway Magic! Now selling at a polymer-soaked femininity indoctrination centre near you. Struts Sierra! Related posts: Video: Learning Gender from Ads for [...]
Fighting the urge to hurl…
… a brick through the window of every store carrying these dolls, the ads for which have only just crossed my radar. Yup, a major toy manufacturer is now officially sexualising infant girls.Apparently some folks in the US have been shocked, shocked I tell you to find they have bought “a doll that looks like [...]
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