July 2012
3 posts
Sexualized at Six Years Old
A new study from the journal, Sex Roles, now shows the sexualization of girls as young as six years old. Psychologists and researchers in the past have shown women and teens who think of themselves as sexual objects. But this may be the first study of its kind to show that same line of thinking in children.
The research took place among six to nine-year-old girls from the Midwest. Psychologists...
Five Things I Wish I Would Have Learned About...
As a young girl, I noticed how boys (and men) lost their temper loudly and sometimes physically. I remember scuffles in the school hallways, boys shoving each other or even “duking it out” at recess. Those fights got worse as they became older and stronger.
Girls didn’t behave the same way - not most of them anyway. Many girls quietly stewed. They ignored the friend they were angry with. Or...
Seventeen Magazine Takes a Step in the Right...
About a month ago, I wrote about Julia Bluhm, a fourteen-year-old writer and ballerina, who petitioned Seventeen Magazine to stop photoshopping their models. She was tired of flipping through the pages, and not seeing anyone who resembled the girls she knew.
The petition, which quickly gained close to 100,000 signatures, eventually landed her a meeting with editor-in-chief, Ann Shoket. And...
