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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media’
‘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 »
Geena Davis optimistic about gender roles changing
Posted in Movies, tagged Animators Guild, Cating Directors Guild, Geena Davis, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Wall Street Journal, Writers Guild on May 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Geena Davis tells the Wall Street Journal that when she presented her data to filmmakers about the lack of girls roles in kids films, they listened, were surprised, and promised change. Davis tells WSJ: The whole idea for me was I wanted to take the facts and go back to the people who are creating the media. [...]
‘Tis the season for stereotyping
Posted in Marriage & family, Toys & products, tagged Christmas shopping, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Lyn Mikel Brown on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Please, Santa, not another pink christmas! I’m the mother of three daughters, and last Christmas, my first with three kids, I was overwhelmed by pink presents, waxy haired dolls, rainbows, fairies and stuffed animals with curly eyelashes and bows. Shocked at the remarkable difference between toys marketed to girls versus boys, when my nine month [...]
