In an advertising supplement to the Sunday newspaper for April 20, 2008, the JCPenney advertising flyer contained the following ad for “Girls’ Self Esteem® Screen Tees.” The logos in the ad read: I Want Everything Fabulous! I Love Being a Daddy’s Girl Daddy’s Expensive Little Princess That may be JCPenney’s idea of a girls’ self-esteem [...]
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It’s Just a Movie
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged culture, disney, entertainment, horton hears a who, media, movies, NPR, ratatouille on April 22, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Peter Sagal has a point. It’s certainly curious to anyone who cares about girls that the writers behind Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who decided to write in 96 girl characters just so their father could ignore them. In the scene introducing him, the Mayor sits at the breakfast table as his children revolve around [...]
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