calvin's canadian cave of cool did a great posting yesterday. it was the very same subject i attempted to
post about here. how women MUST be S E X Y in order to have worth
here's cal's posting and it's a GREAT one. click on the link below and read the WHOLE posting please.
Tough To Be A Girl Baby
........It's so much tougher to be a girl that it's ever been to be a boy in our culture. Females hardly get a change to grow up before we hypersexualize them. This may have always been the case but it seems to be the path most girls are placed on and in pop culture it's unavoidable.....................
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I've noticed this ... it's a good post Stella. It places some light onto marketing and production where it can be examined and exposed culturally ... how many women do you think were among the advertising campaigns'? (is what I wonder...)
Once upon a time (about 10 years ago), when I was a buyer in music retail, the label Music for Little People released two CDs. One was called "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of", and the other "That's What Little Boys Are Made Of". The promo sheet declared kids' utter indifference to issues like sexism and feminism, insisting that they just liked good music.
On the Boy's CD? 1st person songs about wanting to be things and do things. On the Girl's CD? 3rd person songs about girls. Boys were all pro-activity. Girls were all objects. Except for one Girls song, which was about hiding under the table.
And yes, the sales rep who called me to find out if I was going to sell these titles was a woman, and yes, she seemed genuinely surprised that I would say "Hell no!".
Long story long, this halloween stuff seems to me more of the same, only a little further down the slippery slope. All the shite rhetoric about post-feminism notwithstanding.
it IS more of the same stray but we're allowing it to pass/happen, just like the woman salesperson who called on you. it's so ingrained in us we can't even see what we're doing.
i don't want to be the SAME as a man, but i want to be EQUAL to a man (oh, i am)
gwendolyn, like stray said, women are involved as well. most of the time not in the same numbers as men. we cannot see the forest for the trees
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