Tag: pop culture
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How Highly Gendered Toys Present an Exclusively Heterosexual Worldview to Children
Read Article: How Highly Gendered Toys Present an Exclusively Heterosexual Worldview to ChildrenWhen girls and boys walk into a toy store in 2015, they see a significantly more gendered, heteronormative arrangement and selection of toys than I did as a girl forty years ago! Toys, grouped by gender, are prescriptive of gender roles. It is not only a problem of limiting the ways to be a girl…
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Raising Wholesome Children in Today’s Culture: 10 Tips for Parents
Read Article: Raising Wholesome Children in Today’s Culture: 10 Tips for ParentsFollowing the publication of my recent Huffington Post article, “It’s Time for the Global Village to Stand Up for Our Children,” I feel much less alone with my anomie. For the past 15 years, I have grown increasingly alarmed by, and vocal about, the ways in which our culture sexualizes young girls. I have parallel…