Tag Archives: stereotypes
ACLU: Dividing classes by sex promotes harmful stereotypes
TweetA recent report by the ACLU confirms what many of us feminists/gender advocates/smart people might already suspect: that single-sex education programs, often based in ridiculous, unfounded, and outdated gender stereotypes, don’t help kids learn and in fact can be detrimental to their social and educational experience. According to the ACLU, administrators and educators are increasingly [...]
Gendered toy marketing, word cloud edition.
TweetHot damn, I love word clouds. This blogger create these based on two lists of products marketed as “girls” and “boys” toys, and the words used in television commercials advertising them. I’ll quote my homegirl Eliza (age 10) as an appropriate response from this letter (which is amazing, by the way): Hey I’m a Girl, [...]
Also tagged Advertising, Children, Gender, Masculinity, Sexism, toys Comments closed
The Women of the GOP & Warped Gender Identity
TweetThere is a heavy focus by the mainstream news media on the large(r) number of women candidates running in this year’s midterm elections. Many of the women running are Republican, conservatives and/or Tea Party fools nominees. One of the main newsmakers and agitators is Sharon Angle, the Republican nominee for Senate who recently told her [...]
Also tagged gender roles, midterm elections, Politics Comments closed
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