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TMF: Spidey Sense tingling!
Now this particular TMF: Tired Marketing Fail hits closer to home than most because Andrea Shindeldecker of Oak Park, Illinois is a mom after my own heart. You see, her five-year-old daughter LOVES Spiderman! Sure, other superheroes are great and all, but Spidey is tops. Sound like another little girl you’ve heard about on this […]
Girl, you’ll be a woman soon
May 11, 2012
HuffPost Women has a new campaign called “The Moment I Knew I Was a Woman, Not a Girl” in which users submit videos chronicling their exile from Girlville. It’s an interesting question, especially considering how dangerous it feels to be Living While Female these days. And it strikes to the core of gender, really. Because […]
This International Women’s Day, let’s connect and inspire girls!
March 8, 2012
Happy International Women’s Day! What, you didn’t know it was International Women’s Day? Wait, you did know that March is Women’s History Month, right? Okay, okay. Maybe International Women’s Day is not at the top of your annual holiday calendar. But there’s good reason to be thinking about this 101-year-old tradition. So what is IWD? […]
TMF: Different rules for girls
March 2, 2012
Let’s take a look at a couple of toddler shirts I found on a recent shopping trip to Old Navy for this installment of TMF: Tired Marketing FAIL! First we have a shirt in the boys section: Then we have a shirt from the girl’s section: Notice anything? I mean, besides the pink and blue […]
TMF: Girl Power!
February 9, 2012
Just a quick TMF: Tired Marketing FAIL! today… I snapped this pic as I was walking past the girl’s department at a major big-box store. I think it’s rather awesome (all unintentional Charlie Sheen references aside):
Throwing like a girl: 40 years of Title IX
February 1, 2012
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Title IX, today is National Women and Girls in Sports Day. Wow… 40 years. And what a legacy! While it’s true that Title IX is best known for the legal requirement that academic spending benefit girls and boys equally — which has most notably opened the door to […]
TMF: Name that sexism
January 17, 2012
Quick! Check out this t-shirt I spotted in the girl’s side of the toddler section and tell me why I just had to call it out for the first TMF: Tired Marketing FAIL! of the year. And… go!
Slut-shaming is wrong: This 13-year-old has it figured out
January 12, 2012
How awesome is this 13-year-old girl with her vlog about why slut-shaming is wrong. (Answer: “It’s part of a rape culture… [that says] it’s okay to rape sluts because they were ‘asking for it.’”) How about this sex-positive, shame-free directive: It is nobody’s business but your own how many people you’re having sex with or […]
Do you celebrate your period?
November 3, 2011
Earlier tonight I was in a room filled with women who were all talking about one thing: menstruation. Sounds like every guy’s worst nightmare, right? Well actually, it was by turns funny, insightful, inspiring, and frustrating. And no men were hurt in the process. See? We come in peace. Or rather, we menstruate in peace. […]
Scout’s honor
October 27, 2011
After news broke of the 7-year-old transgender child who wasn’t allowed to join Girl Scouts, my heart sank a little. You see, I was a Girl Scout for seven years. Denver’s Bobby Montoya has made national headlines because of a Girl Scout leader’s refusal to let him join because he had, “boy parts.”Oh, right. Boy […]
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