Posts tagged children
Two twenty-something feminists fighting patriarchy one blogpost at a time
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Progress: Gender Neutral toy department at Harrods
Harrods Department Store is a British institution that’s just as much a tourist spot as any other historical landmark in London. This past week they made history by opening their first gender-neutral toy department. It was designed by London and Singapore-based interior architects Shed and has been dubbed Toy Kingdom. Everything in Toy Kingdom is grouped by theme, not gender: enchanted forest, miniature toy world, a reading room, a circus area, and a candy store
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(Source: skrinkles3)
"Girls were not allowed to converse except from 6 to 9 p.m. each Friday. They were not allowed contact with their families during their first month, or with anyone else for six months. By that time, Roxy said, most girls are 'broken,' having been told that their families have abandoned them, and that the world outside is a sinful, dangerous place where girls who leave are murdered or raped."
Women isolated from secular society, scarred for life, and beaten for crossing the religious authorities. Kandahar? No, Missouri. And conservatives keep the system running.
(via yesmeansyes)
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Lawmaker: Kids’ TV Needs Fewer "Pink And Princessy" Girls
Citing a 2007 study that found two thirds of lead characters on British children’s TV were male, Swinson said that broadcasters are hurting girl’s self-esteem by showing female characters mainly in supporting roles and focusing on their looks
When my cousin was younger, he loved Pippi Longstocking. I remember once my mom making a comment of how strange that was, that of all characters this is the one he liked. Maybe because it is an old book, and she expected him to go for something more recent…but I think there is this expectation that boys can’t relate to female characters (yet girls are expected to relate to the main male character? Rather, instead of relating to the main actor, she should be relating to the supporting character, whereas little boys should always be relating to the main character, and therefore that main character should be male).
I think this is just yet another thing that reflects our culture (and reinforces it, by socializing children to think it’s normal)
