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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: 5, Insightful) by mtrycz on Sunday August 30 2015, @11:14AM
While I rated this funny (because it made me spit my coffee), I think it's actually pretty insightful about the degree of degeneration we've at. I clicked the link and yes, the photos are very acurately described by the OPs words: "lovely little girls". The main thing about the shots is that the girls seem to have fun being themselves (I liked the T-rex one particularly). It's obviously and ad campagin, and it's deliberately designed to be so, but still. I personally think that breaking the gender roles (expecially in young people; just think about it, all the little girls are princesses and all the little boys are warriors/soldiers) is a good thing.
The thing that when one reads "lovely little girls" the first thought is about child pornography says lenghts about the mental/psycological torsion we've collectively gone through. We can't even enjoy the beauty of persons, even young persons, without an everpresent subtle sexual tension.
I stand with OP: he's acurately described the content of the link. That's that.
In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:31PM
A big, fat shit in a toilet bowl. Man, it smells. A big, thick, hefty shit stinking up the place. And it leaves a shit-streak when you flush it, too.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Sunday August 30 2015, @04:08PM
I read Runaway's submission in the queue and thought, "Oh boy, he's gonna get ribbed for this." But clicking the links, his characterization is fine. The ribbing is more a reflection on those reading dubious stuff into it, and the times in which those people came of age.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:37PM
I personally think that breaking the gender roles (expecially in young people; just think about it, all the little girls are princesses and all the little boys are warriors/soldiers) is a good thing.
Well, turn in your SJW card then because there are no little trans-girls on that page.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:35PM
That doesn't even make sense. Can you rephrase that?
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