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Siren Thong Song Thwarts Girls Development

Posted by on February 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

A few days after my daughter was born a friend called, “Just remember what Chris Rock said: Your job is to keep her off the pole.” Great. Thanks. It wasn’t enough to worry about breastfeeding problems; I also had to worry about my newborn’s career choice and whether it would involve brass poles, dim lights and too revealing clothes — or none at all.

Turns out my friend and Chris have a point. Today’s girls grow up in a sexualized atmosphere that is stunting their development — both intellectually and sexually. Though anyone who’s ever seen a music video might say, “Duh?” — it’s still an eye opener to hear it from scientists. Sex pressure leads to depression, eating disorders, poor academic performance, shaving your head and generally acting like a moron.

From Bratz dolls to the Pussycat dolls, young girls are bombarded by the idea that only sex matters — and it’s messing with their minds. How I’m going to thwart this process in an age of Internets, big-screen TVs and dumb-ass movies is beyond me.

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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

I’m trying to counteract the deluge of media images and influences by educating my girls on how and why these things permeate their lives (hint: sex sells). I use my blog to research and work through the issues and figure out how the girls can best understand it. It’s tough, but I’ve had some success.

Other good resources: http://www.acmecoalition.org/, http://www.commercialexploitation.org/, and anything by Susan Linn.

Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

I feel ya, dude. My plan to thwart gender-role stereotypes from the get-to was itself thwarted by The Pumpkin’s love for pink things and other “girly” stuff. But I’m still tryin’.

Don’t know too much about it or exactly what they do, but I stumbled on this advocacy group called Dads and Daughters, at http://dadsanddaughters.org/. Lots of media literacy stuff, raising strong girls, etc. Interesting…

disl commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am

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