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The Girl Scouts are getting a makeover. Frankly, they need it. The Boy Scouts was my first “feminist cause.” My mother sent me to Brownies one year, where I learned to braid hair. Both my brothers became Eagle Scouts and they learned how to survive in the wilderness, went on great big adventures, their service […]
Did anyone see Steve Harvey on Friday’s Oprah? His new book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is at the top of The New York Time’s Best Seller List. Harvey said some insightful things on Oprah, so insightful that she’s having him back for a whole hour. The gist of what he said, as […]
By now no one will be surprised when I say that Im not a huge fan of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Some might see Belle as a redeeming character because she is smart and loves to read. She is, after all, bright enough to tell Gaston, the quintessential good-looking football player type, where […]
The Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood issued its first TOADY (Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young Children) Award to the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Barbie. When you combine two classic symbols of gendered stereotypes the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader and Barbie you get one terrible toy, said CCFC Steering Committee member Joe Kelly, of www.dadsanddaughters.com. Do […]
Click here to listen to my half-hour interview with PunditMom, Joanne Bamberger. We spoke about body image, princess culture, creating media and health. The Girl Revolution on BlogTalk Radio.
You can never, ever, not-in-a-million years, love and accept yourself from the couch. If feelings were math “accepting your body” is a mathematical impossibility if you are not in touch with and caring for your body. It’s not only ineffective, it’s dangerous advice that glamorizes, justifies and promotes obesity. It’s time to get over it […]
By Leola Dublin Growing up, I used to love those Virginia Slims magazine ads that featured pictures of women from the 19th and early 20th centuries juxtaposed with saucy looking modern women smoking cigarettes. I grew up in a smoke-free home, and somehow the ads never convinced me that I should be a smoker when […]
Check out this year’s Amelia Bloomer List – a list of books that are great for girls.
Mark your calendars. You don’t want to miss Tracee Sioux of The Girl Revolution on PunditMom’s Blogtalk Radio Show on next Tues., Feb. 17.
Ainsley’s in the other room reading to her brother and my husband and I are having a consultation with her doctor. And I’m hearing myself say this, I don’t understand how this could be happening. This doesn’t make any sense. We’re doing most things right. We don’t keep junk food in the house, we probably […]
My husband and I are sitting in the doctor’s office and we’ve done the math – Ainsley is officially “overweight.” Her BMI is over 19. Not by much, but over. I’m trying to wrap my brain around how this could happen and what it means. Like every parent, I’ve compared her to the other children […]
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