Senate Misogyny, Entitlement, and Pop Culture

harpua Please tell me that is an old picture.

 

No... that "How to be Gorgeous" book came out last year.

 

The problem is when you only assume boys like superheroes or girls like princesses, like in that Chuck E Cheese's commercial I mentioned earlier, and you know what happens when you assume.....

 

Harder to localize.

 

SuperWatto is right that for-profit corporations aren't going to change their ways as long as they make a ton of money doing the same things, but that's not so much a valid excuse as another reason those entities are evil. Of course they're going to target "specific groups"-- people who are the most likely to be persuaded to pay for their product. Advertising is sociopathic. They sell mostly useless crap to people who wouldn't otherwise want that crap. In the process of targeting specific groups, these companies that wield enormous cultural influence not only reinforce gender norms and other socio-economic biases; they can end up creating them. Change needs to come from the people. It is, kind of, but it would be faster to just hang Disney executives.

 

Ugh that makes me want to vomit.

 

Hey I can't help how these companies operate. Send them a letter.

 

More atrocities in children's literature.

 

I am completely neutral. I just observe that this is how it works. It used to upset me to, but now that I see that my kids get so much joy out of pink and princesses, I just shrug. I don't buy the products harps posts, I think they're in bad taste. But I don't complain about it; I might as well complain that gossip magazines are targeted towards women, and beer towards men.

 

Of course I shrug. It's not important. If my daughters would like superheroes, fine. I'd get them superheroes. If the product says "for boys", I don't get that particular product. It's just a product. You're free to not buy it. Hardly a thing to get angry at.

 

This is like a white man telling a black man not to be upset about racism. Do you not see this? Sorry, but I will continue to be pissed off by sexism until it goes away.

 

Ok, let me get this straight, a bunch of parents are getting uppity about boys and girls toys and some other parents don't care.

But it seems only the children do not care. They just want their parents to get them stuff. And now, not wait till Christmas.

 

But what can you do against it? Do you really want to make a law to prohibit gender marketing?

Again, I think the products are stupid too, I just don't think there's a lot you can do about it.

 

I'd like to do away with forced gender roles and stereotypes, yes.

 

stfu, beez

 

I'm going to bed, y'all have fun getting angry at toys

 

The clothing companies that I posted a couple of pages ago, not sure if you even looked--probably not, are a good start. We need more of that.

Like I said, several times now, I'm not on an anti-pink campaign... I don't want to ban items here... I want more options added, and that is the right way to get rid of assigned 'norms'--give more options to kids, so that those norms change over time... evolution-like.

I mean, we've progressed a fair amount, since these days... no reason to think further progression is impossible.