Positive Pick: Announcing the Launch of Differences Magazine!
I’m so excited to be a contributing writer for Differences Magazine. This is a truly different product and experience! NEW ONLINE AND MOBILE MAGAZINE FOR TEENS TRANSCENDS TRADITIONAL TOPICS – … Continue reading
Let’s Hook-Up? We’re not Buying SuddenLink’s Sexualized Ad
On most Fridays, I like to post positive picks with products and marketing campaigns that provide positive messages to children and adolescents. But something got under my skin enough today … Continue reading
Of Tiny Tots and Loungerie: Sexualization’s Smallest Casualties
As many of you, I’ve been following the stories recently of the 10-year-old Vogue model and now the “loungerie” marketed to children as young as 4 years old. For the … Continue reading
Positive Activism: Create, talk back, make your voice heard
If you’ve read this blog very often, you know from previous posts that I love fun, creative ways of getting out positive messages and challenging sexualized messages. I want to … Continue reading
Positive Picks: Finally, Girls as Agents!
In my last post I shared a disheartening objectified ad campaign at a chain store that targets adolescents. On Friday’s I like to share positive picks, so today I wanted … Continue reading
Girls are Flirty and Boys are Proud? Objectification, Anyone?
My middle school daughter was shopping today and she came home with these photos from an in-store advertising campaign. Notice the difference between the ads directed at girls versus those … Continue reading
