Blog Redux–A “Best Of” Collection
As 2016 drew to a close, some unintended changes occurred with this blog. It’s a long story, but basically my longtime web host sold to another company. Said company provided no response to support...
View ArticleHow Does Female Sexualization Affect Young Boys?
I wrote this post on September 28, 2010. In my most recent book, I challenge conventional wisdom cited here about sexual harassment having less of an impact on boys and men. I knew little about the...
View ArticleWord Cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes
This post went viral shortly after I published it on March 28, 2011. There was so much response that I had to write a preamble in April to address some of the questions and concerns readers had. It was...
View ArticleRaising Up One Sex While Denigrating the Other
I wrote this post in November, 2011. I chose to re-post it because of a question from a reader in 2017 about an article he read that criticizes Disney who, in their efforts to create “strong” female...
View ArticleLEGO Heroica: A Distorted View of Masculinity
Written in August 2011, this post talks about the violence and male dominance in new-at-the-time toy line called Heroica. Because the product line is discontinued, the links that existed in this post...
View ArticleWe’re Rescuing a Girl? Is She Hot?—Gender Bias in LEGO Advertising
I wrote this post in May, 2011. LEGO became something of a fixation that year, what with all of the company’s stereotyping. Unfortunately, some of the clips and the letter from LEGO are missing– a...
View ArticleLEGO for Girls
My first post about the then upcoming LEGO Friends line, originally written in December of 2011. So LEGO announced this week that it is making a line of toys for girls. The company claims its market...
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