"my-boys" Articles & Blogs:
SI for Kids: Basic lessons in gender, sport
| At the UM Tucker Center lecture Monday night on women's sports and social media, I suggested that the primary function of mediated/spectator sports in U.S. culture is to reinforce gender norms (apologies to Noam Chomsky). It starts early. Just loo...[Read on] |
Girls Will Be Boys: Gender In Afghanistan
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Mehran is a six-year-old Afghani girl who is being raised by her parents as a boy. This phenomenon is called bacha posh, and translates to “girl in boy’s clothes”. In Afghanistan boys are valued higher than girls; they are able to carry ...[Read on] |
Girls sports DO make money
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Contrary to popular belief, a new article in the NYTimes highlights a trend among youth sporting events--girls events tend to draw more crowds and bring in more revenue than boys events.
The article is comparing traveling teams and tournament sporting e...[Read on] |
Set Visit: With Bridesmaids, Can Judd Apatow’s Dude-Friendly Formula Go Girly?
| Apatow’s ladies’ night? Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper. Courtesy of Universal Pictures.
By now, the legendary Judd Apatow filmmaking formula is so well known, we’ve memorized it: find talented comedians, give th...[Read on] |
Why every parent should watch Huge (with their kids)
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It’s kind of a shame that the brilliant new show Huge from Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life) and her daughter Savannah Dooley is airing during the summer when people are busy, outside, not watching TV and many of the targeted audience kids are at act...[Read on] |
Video games give girls "life lessons" on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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Check out Wired's take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one ("The Daring Game for Girls") is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your "femin...[Read on] |
Why police the border between women's and men's sports?
| In 2004, Mexican National Women's Team superstriker Maríbel Dominguez was signed to a two-year contract with Celaya FC, a second division men's team. FIFA stepped in with an official prohibition and the assertion "There must be a clear separation between...[Read on] |
Sexism and Masculinity in Disney Movies
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It’s not only the girls who are screwed up by the Disney movies with their princesses galore and pink sterotypes, it’s the boys who get it too.
Here’s a great video that pulls back the curtain on why these films screw with boys too.
Way to go Sa...[Read on] |
A Title IX Must-Read: Getting In the Game
| Hot off the press! Getting In the Game is a new book by Title IX expert Professor Debbie Brake from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In the book, Brake examines how Title IX has affected and continues to affect many facets of college and scho...[Read on] |
Playing Ball Like a Girl
| ...may not be as bad as you think. In Plant City, Florida, 13 year old Chelsea Baker is striking out the boys left and right with a 65 mile per hour knuckleball pitch. One of Chelsea's coaches, Keith Maxwell, describes it this way: "Chelsea Baker is by f...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – Thanksgiving Weekend 2010
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Disney may want to rethink its decision to swear off princesses since Tangled had an impressive debut weekend landing in second place with $69 million. I would venture to say that there had to be at least a couple of boys in the theatre for it to have...[Read on] |
Parents, some advice: Three DIII athletes talk about youth sports (and, yeah, playing with boys)
| By Megan Wood
Documentary filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie’s film Kick Like a Girl conveys the empowering and enlightening experience when a soccer team of 8 and 9-year-old girls plays in the boys division — quite successfully. After Mackenzie’s visit to ...[Read on] |
Architect, surgeon or news anchor - what will Barbie be next?
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She's been an astronaut, a doctor and a rock star - now Barbie's diverse resume is about to get it's latest update.On Friday February 12th, Mattel will announce which job the doll's young fans have decided she will do next. Luckily, the ...[Read on] |
Degenderizing Disney
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I find it pretty hysterical that the folks at Disney are freaking out and changing the names of their movies so they don’t alienate boys who won’t come and see a movie with the name princess in the title. Of course they would never freak out if girl...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: August 13-15
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The dynamic of the weekend was set up as adversarial all week.
Will the girls beat the boys? Will the boys punch the girls? No wonder we are still so fucked up about gender at the movies. If we didn’t set the movies up as an us vs. them dynamic...[Read on] |
Disney Swears off Princesses
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In a move that should have progressive minded parents across the country and the world cheering, Disney last week said that they would no longer be producing fairy tale movies, and folks that means no more princess movies.
No more big pink dresses, no ...[Read on] |
Glee Tackles High-School Bullying
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Last night's episode of Glee spotlighted high-school bullying, in the form of Kurt, McKinley High's only openly gay student, who is physically and verbally abused for his sexuality, and Shannon Beiste, the new football coach who threatens Sue's budget exp...[Read on] |
Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!
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Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt:
Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on] |
Boys will be boys and girls will be things
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An anonymous reader in London emailed me about this charming ad campaign from Lynx. Lynx is the Australian and UK name for Axe, and I've posted about their campaigns before. This poster campaign, for a bodywash called "Rise" (totally coincidental name tha...[Read on] |
Argentinian soccer, not just for boys...
| I thought everyone in Argentina was practically born dribbling a soccer ball between their feet. Silly me, what I meant to say was that everyone who is a boy is weaned on soccer. Girls, it turns out, are not necessarily welcome in the sport in that soccer...[Read on] |
Double Standard: SATC 2 v. Grown-ups
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Here’s what bothers me. The women of Sex and the City 2 get skewered for being not mature, and self-centered and out of touch and the thousand other things that were used to put down that film, but Grown-Ups a movie that celebrates the lack of male ...[Read on] |
The Case of the Pink Hockey Gloves
| A couple years ago a student in my Psychology of Coaching class told me a story of a local youth hockey coach. This coach wanted to make his team of U12 boys “tougher.” To accomplish this goal, he decided to give the least tough skater on his team ...[Read on] |
Equality: Ur doing it wrong.
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Seeing this headline on POLITICO this morning almost made me cry.
John Boehner’s boys: The new power club
I decided the testosterone-overloaded picture needed a more fitting caption:
Our first...
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Thirteen-year-old girl in a league of her own
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Chelsea Baker, a 13-year-old Floridian, has beat the boys with her wicked 65 mph knuckle ball. Being the only girl on a boys-only Little League team can’t be easy but Baker certainly makes it look that way. Over the past four years, her teams have lost ...[Read on] |
Power Shifts: Chipping Away at the Old-Boys Club
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This post was written by WCF Fellow, Stephanie Glover
Yesterday, the Senate began its debate on health care reform. Like many of you, I’m waiting with much anticipation to see what their end...
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