One more thing that really bothered me about Disneyland– and again, it’s not so different than San Francisco: I heard parents berate their kids for wasting food. I heard a mom yell at her kid because the girl did not finish her pink mountain of cotton candy. Seriously. It’s not that I can’t understand parental [...]
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Telling your kids not to waste food makes them fat
Posted in Body image, Health on May 10, 2012 | 11 Comments »
What’s the difference between fat and dumb?
Posted in Body image on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“What’s the difference between fat and dumb?” asked my five year old. She had no idea. My kid. She’d gotten in a fight with another kid in her kindergarten class and maybe or maybe not called her fat. This according to the other kid’s mom. My kid denied using the word but then asked me [...]
Beautiful gives her daughter something to look forward to
Posted in Body image, Media, Most stereotyping *SSS* on March 16, 2012 | 16 Comments »
That’s the caption for an Elizabeth Arden ad I saw in O Magazine. Here it is: I know there’s hardly any point in getting pissed off about sexist ads from cosmetic companies, but the mom being “beautiful” gives her daughter something to look forward to? Are you kidding me? What really drives me crazy about [...]
Post Halloween bliss
Posted in Body image, Health, Parenting, tagged Halloween candy on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This morning my five year old went to her food shelf, got out her plastic pumpkin tub of candy, ate half a Crunch bar, and then asked for a bowl of Cheerios. I’ve posted on Reel Girl quite a bit about how I let my kids eat what they want, when they want, and however [...]
New study reports only 10% of boys feel beautiful
Posted in Body image on October 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I made that headline up, because sometimes it’s hard to realize how deep sexism goes. It’s a weird headline, right? I recently posted on stats from Dove that only 11% of girls are comfortable calling themselves beautiful. But just asking that question shows a distorted view of female worth mangled in the language of beauty. [...]
Only 11% of girls comfortable using the word “beautiful” to describe themselves.
Posted in Body image on October 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Dove reports that according to its global research, only 11% of girls worldwide are comfortable using the word “beautiful” to describe themselves. Even worse, when girls feel bad about their looks, more than 70% avoid normal daily activities, such as attending school, going to the doctor, or even giving their opinion. Feeling “beautiful” has come [...]
‘Not a single onesie in all of humankind had a little girl and an airplane on it’
Posted in Body image, Cool and radical girls, Education, Health, Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Achilles Effect, Animal Planet, Butterfly Effect, Collective Shout, Crystal Smith, Diego, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Jackson Katz, Mamafesto, Melissa Wardy, Operation Transformation, Peggy Orenstein, Pigtail Pals, Pink Stinks, Princess Free Zone, SciGirls, Scooby-Doo, Shaping Youth, SPARK summit, Wild Kratts, Word World on October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
After JCPenney’s “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother had to do it for me,” shirt for girls incited a protest that went viral, Pigtail Pals, a site that creates clothing empowering to girls, put out a best-selling shirt that reads “Pretty’s got nothing to do with it.” Now Reel Girl talks [...]
Oreos for breakfast? Really?
Posted in Body image, Health, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Marriage & family, Parenting, tagged Babble.com, eating disoders, oreos for breakfast, raising girls on June 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »
After reading ReelGirl’s ‘Notes to the babysitter‘ post on my ‘let them eat cake’ (for breakfast) approach to feeding my three daughters, Babble.com’s Madeline Holler blogs on strollerderby: No bad food, no bad food, no bad food. Come on! Oreos are bad food! But, she’s got an open mind: I remember when my daughter was [...]
Gender gap persists in imaginary world
Posted in Art, Body image, Books, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Media, Most stereotyping *SSS*, Movies, Parenting on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why write fiction? I’ve always loved to, but I also felt like it didn’t matter as much. Writing about politics and culture is important. If you write about ‘issues,’ you can use your writing to change the world. Or try to. Making up stories might be fun but what’s the point? Then I had three [...]
Women kiss and tell in new book
Posted in Art, Body image, Books, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Marriage & family, Media, Most girlpower *GGG*, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Daphne Merkin, Erica Jong, Fay Weldon, female sexuality, Gail Collins, Jennifer Weiner, Julie Klam, Min-Jinn Lee, Sugar In My Bowl on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sugar In My Bowl, edited by Erica Jong, is a collection of essays and short fiction about female sexuality by writers like Julie Klam, Fay Weldon, Jennifer Weiner, and many others including me. The book is coming out June 14, but you can preorder it on Amazon. Gail Collins, an op-ed columnist for the New [...]
