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In light of some past articles on diversity, SoylentNews: "How to Get Girls Into Coding" and SoylentNews: "Google to Release Diversity Data About its Workforce" This CNN article caught my attention.
Princess Free Zone offers empowering T-shirts with images such as dinosaurs, skateboards and soccer balls. "Kids should not have to be brave to wear the things they like," says founder Michele Yulo.
[...] "Girl clothes without the girly" is the mantra behind Girls Will Be, which includes longer shorts and T-shirts (no pink ones!) with images that seek to break gender stereotypes.
[...] The company buddingSTEM offers a line of girls' clothes celebrating girls' interests in science, engineering, technology and math.
Please, browse the photos. They are full of lovely little girls, minus what I call the "silly frilly" stuff. You might even click some links, and find something fitting for the young lady in your life!
Some might complain that it's a very small start - but the longest journey begins with a single step. Each of these startups seems to be doing pretty much what I've called for - giving the girls what THEY want, rather then telling them what they should want.
One of my favorite T-shirts, seen on girls young and mature, http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=92703208
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:17AM
I find it funny that "giving the girls what THEY want, rather then telling them what they should want" means no pricess stuff, no pink. Really? That's bullshit. Pink and princess stuff does not exclude dinosaurs and cars you know. A girl can like them all. No credibility in this shit.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:21AM
Exactly! How do we know dinosaurs didn't have frilly pink feathers?
(Score: 2) by Kell on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:42AM
I would buy my nieces a cool "Princess Flamingosaurus" t-shirt in a heart-beat. They would love it to bits and destroy the house to get at it. Well... they destroy the house anyway, but at least this time it would be purposeful!
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @09:31AM
I would love to give my niece a pink Pterodaustro t-shirt.
Just look at the images(with your favorite search engine), what a lovely flamingoness.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 30 2015, @09:33AM
I must have missed the part of the article stipulating that the girls must choose this or frilly stuff - for the rest of their lives, with no possibility of going back.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:02AM
My dinosaur is a princess! Princessaurus Rex!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:09AM
April shops at T-Rex, and so should you. [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday August 30 2015, @05:30PM
Princess Daisy? [imdb.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by albert on Sunday August 30 2015, @07:14PM
The princess stuff is usually lots of plastic/gauze mesh (cheap substitute for lace and silk) and lots of polyester or nylon. It'd be a major fire hazard if it weren't soaked in toxic flame retardants. This other stuff is cartoony (the shirts with dinosaurs) or purposely unfeminine (as opposed to unfeminine for practical reasons like durability). Yuck, yuck, and yuck. I guess it beats jeans with holes intentionally ripped in the butt.
What about nice fabric in solids, stripes, and plaid? Can't we have something kind of classy, respectable, and pretty but not garish? It could even be skimpy as long as that doesn't mean trashy holes and exposed bellies. It's be nice to have stuff untainted by corporate logos, political/religious messages, and licensed characters.