Tags: fighting back, girlie girl culture, pink
Posted August 12th, 2011, in Gender hysteria | 9 Comments
Not sure how I feel about this new Tide ad in which girlie-girl Mom tries to come to terms with her non-conforming daughter . Like it? Hate it? Troubled by it? Jezebel finds it “a 30 second cocktail of gender stereotypes” that are hard to decipher: Are we supposed to relate to the uptight, creepy mom who wishes her daughter wore pink, or laugh at her for being neurotic and over-the-top girly? At worst, the ad plays on the fearswe’re supposed to have about girls like Shiloh, and at best it’s just uncomfortable to watch. Don’t know whether I agree. I do relate to the idea that your child can sometimes, in her individuality, do things that make you wildly uncomfortable and that you struggle to accept. I also think if this were flipped and it was a pink boy on the rug playing the ad would’ve been more controversial. And [...]
Tags: pink princess culture camd
Posted May 28th, 2011, in Boys and Girls, Equal Parenting, Gender hysteria, Princesses, Why I Wrote CAMD | 24 Comments
Okay, so everyone is asking me what I think about Storm, the latest child whose parents have announced they are raising (oh God I need a pronoun–him? Her? It?–this is so hard without a pronoun) gender free. I have so many thoughts on the subject, I’m just going to put them all down in a jumble. I get that Storm’s parents are disgusted by the current hyper-gender segmentation of childhood. They’re right about that. A hundred years ago babies were not so maniacally and relentlessly gender-coded. In an earlier blog post I point out that all babies and toddlers used to be dressed in white, frilly gowns with long flowing hair, ideally in curls. Check out the picture of a cutie pie FDR in his dress and patent leather shoes. And that sweet little dress on Ronald Reagan. Apparently, boys in dresses grow up to be President (though not girls [...]
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