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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @12:54PM
I quit slashdot after 16+ years of daily reading because it got clogged with SJW gender BS, sad to see it infecting this place too.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday August 30 2015, @04:16PM
If you are human (and I assume that you are), then your entire world is infected with "gender issues." The closest you could probably get to something else is a Lamaist monastery in Bhutan. Good luck, and hope you are able to mumble in Pali.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @07:21PM
No. Claiming that everything is relevant to some cause indicates a champion of that cause and nothing to do with the cause itself just as racist groups think everything is about race and nationalist groups think everything is about immigration. Right now I am sitting alone in a lab staring at multiple screens, drinking tea from a nondescript mug and surrounded with cables, electronic miscellany, and scraps of paper. Not a thing about my current position save for the article comments I am reading on a lazy Saturday is "infected with gender issues". I do not worry about how sexist my tea-in-mug is. I don't care to know the gender of the person who made the cables. It is not relevant as to the sexist connotations of the scraps of paper having more blue lines than red.
It just doesn't matter.
And that is what brainspace looks like when you finally do give up being sexist, racist, classist, or any other -ist. Is a person ethical? Can they do the job? That's it. The end.
If you still can see everything being saturated with gender issues, you are part of the problem. You still judge people based on how they were born instead of their character and ability. Stop it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @11:34AM
Ethics, to me, includes not letting others build unreasonable barriers for women.
If you want to rail against us for caring about these things, I'm gonna have to fail you on ethics. Sorry.