gender stereotypes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/24/pink-stuff-little-girl_n_1169044.html

hahahaha

she is awesome

12/27/2011 8:37:52 AM

nah, just a dike in the making.

12/27/2011 9:29:23 AM

Her parents must be a joy at parties.

12/27/2011 9:31:57 AM

toddlers make gender commentary all the time

most of the time they aren't that whiny about it

12/27/2011 9:45:50 AM

so go get a fucking superhero and shut up already

12/27/2011 10:14:23 AM

she may want to stick with liking pink and baby dolls so that she won't end up looking like this




if she does what she ought to she could end up being like this



[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 10:19 AM. Reason : .]

12/27/2011 10:15:59 AM

why the fuck does she care?

12/27/2011 10:19:10 AM

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"Her parents must be a joy at parties"

Because someone has taught her to care.

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 2:16 PM. Reason : \/ That's what I was going for, but you worded it better.]

12/27/2011 1:55:47 PM

^Or taught her how to regurgitate their own propaganda.

12/27/2011 1:57:55 PM

Must have been a slow day at the huffington post

Also, boys and girls are equal. The fact that one had a penis and one has a vagina was a mistake.

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 4:15 PM. Reason : Almost forgot]

12/27/2011 4:13:21 PM

itt grown men feel threatened by an intelligent, talented 7 year old.

12/27/2011 4:33:52 PM

^uhh...that girl is nowhere close to 7. but you're right, we're all so astounded at her insight. must be sour grapes.

12/27/2011 5:46:27 PM

Ha!

12/27/2011 7:45:44 PM

Back in my day I just grabbed some Micro Machines off the shelf and kept my trap shut about not wanting Barbie dolls

12/27/2011 8:11:38 PM

^*4 this chick will be wearing flannel shirts, works boots, and a trucker hat when and if she graduates high school

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 8:12 PM. Reason : ^]

12/27/2011 8:11:41 PM

oh no, she won't be a tomboy, she'll be a goddamn manhating, lesbian, pseudo-intellectual, maladjusted activist.

12/27/2011 8:13:56 PM

did you guys even watch the video? holy shit you're making her out to be a militaristic feminist, which is not the case at all.

im still shaking my head at ncstateccc's post

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"but you're right, we're all so astounded at her insight. must be sour grapes"

haha i didn't say you needed to be astounded by her insight. i said you're threatened by the fact that she doesn't follow your typical white male idea that women should all be subservient princesses

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 8:37 PM. Reason : .]

12/27/2011 8:36:04 PM

So she's saying girls have to guy the pink stuff and that companies are actively trying to trick girls into wanting the princess crap. Real insightful.

12/27/2011 8:39:31 PM

haha i just realized i watched the wrong video (the one at the bottom).

anyways my point still stands

and lol at the people saying she's not insightful. no shit, she's fucking 5. haha

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 8:45 PM. Reason : .]

12/27/2011 8:42:30 PM

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"i said you're threatened by the fact that she doesn't follow your typical white male idea that women should all be subservient princesses"

She's clearly being fed what to say by her parents. Particularly her father, who keeps prompting what she should say next.

And I've never seen a toy store that only carries pink and dolls for girls.

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 8:44 PM. Reason : ]

12/27/2011 8:44:19 PM

You get up to the register and they won't let a little girl purchase a toy that is intended for a boy.

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM. Reason : =]

12/27/2011 8:46:14 PM

yes children are not manipulated by advertising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0uUU7cjfcdM

12/27/2011 8:54:04 PM

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"she doesn't follow your typical white male idea that women should all be subservient princesses"

1. Why did you think it was a good idea to bring race into this discussion? Really?
2. How do you draw a correlation between being a princess and being subservient? Princesses' servants are subservient. Princesses themselves wield great power and influence.

You just make up evils to fit the stereotypes in your head, don't you?
It's ok to admit it. It'll make your future self a more open minded person.

12/27/2011 9:42:51 PM

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"Princesses themselves wield great power and influence."

I forgot that it's 1645.

12/27/2011 9:47:56 PM

I mean, I have a 5-year old daughter, and she would far rather do the kid's rock-climbing wall at the park than play with Barbie. She pretty much doesn't give a shit about dolls. At the same time, she's no tomboy...she's very much a little girl in many (most) ways.

The point is, to the extent that she ventures outside of gender stereotypes, and to the extent that I encourage it, nobody's (a) being douchey about it, or (b) making it out like it's bad when she IS playing with Barbie or playing with a toy kitchen set.

12/27/2011 9:58:43 PM

I place all the blame on this guy

12/27/2011 9:59:23 PM

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"[1. Why did you think it was a good idea to bring race into this discussion? Really? 2. How do you draw a correlation between being a princess and being subservient? Princesses' servants are subservient. Princesses themselves wield great power and influence."

Excuse me for being sarcastic toward the knuckle-draggers posting in this thread. Allow me to elaborate.

Girls in white households tend to be brought up as helpless, coddled princesses. Not princesses in the respect of "members of the royal family". I'm talking about princesses in a tower prison, waiting to be rescued by their brave prince. (See: Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White, a multitude of other Disney movies). This is partly due to marketing/advertising and partly due to the dying cultural ideal that women are inferior, helpless individuals. And it's dying because of people like this little girl and her family.

12/27/2011 10:01:56 PM

Have you actually watched Disney movies? The Princesses aren't really portrayed as helpless. I think TheDuke is spot on here.

12/27/2011 10:04:24 PM

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" I think TheDuke is spot on here."

I agree.

12/27/2011 10:09:12 PM

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"And it's dying because of people like this little girl and her family."

Maybe, but without knowing them and being forced to make some inferences based on that video, I think they're likely overcorrecting. To borrow from a cliche, they're gonna make her so open-minded that her brain falls out.

12/27/2011 10:15:17 PM

Good God some people are reading way too much into a little girl just wanting a superhero doll put in the same spot as the princess dolls. I think the real tragedy here is she's too goddamn lazy to walk all the aisles of the stores to buy her toys.

12/27/2011 10:19:18 PM