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Fed-up Moms Create Their own Clothing for Girls

posted by CoolHand on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the diversity dept.

Runaway1956 writes:

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.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/26/health/moms-girl-empowerment-clothing-parents/index.html?eref=edition

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

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:10PM (#229834)

    I went to Walmart shopping for school clothes for my daughter. Some of the young girls clothes looked more like stripper outfits. What fucked up mom would dress their kids in this shit? Oh, it must be the same ones that teach their 3 year old how to twerk, the ones that pump out kids to get more welfare.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:36AM (#230042)

    > the ones that pump out kids to get more welfare.

    Welfare pays a couple of hundred bucks a month per kid. Barely enough to keep them fed. There is no profit in it. Except for political operatives using the idea of it to manipulate voters. Those guys get paid a lot of money to push it. I bet you didn't get paid a dime for your efforts. Useful idiot.