![]() Orenstein: When you look through the princess products there's a lot of makeup, there's a lot of 'my princess wedding,' you know, things that are pretty retrograde on that level. What sort of messages might be getting through to girls though these products? ![]() You examine a lot of aspects of girls' culture, but specifically the Disney princesses. And I really wanted to see what was going on in the culture of little girls. ![]() But obviously these things don't just burst forth on your 13th birthday. ![]() Or, is it something else? Is it that somehow, simultaneous to those gains, the pressure on girls to define themselves by their looks, and define looks in a very narrow way as being sexy and hot, and that too has been ratcheted up, and lowered down so that it starts, you know, basically in the womb.Ī lot of people were looking at issues of eating disorders or depression, or sexuality or culture, and issues in teenagers. Maybe all this is no problem and it just means we're free to indulge this. And then you have a kid, and suddenly it's kind of shocking how segmented the market is for girls and boys, and when you're looking at girls' stuff it's just like everything has been dipped in Pepto-Bismol.Īnd so I started to go, 'What is this?' You know, girls are doing so well academically, they're doing so well in leadership, they're doing so well on the sports field. Orenstein: I'm a mother, and I think that when you're an adult, you don't really notice what's going on so much in the world of kids' culture. ![]()
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