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The pink and blue project

Via Daily Dish, I learned of the “Pink and Blue Project” by photographer Jeongmee Yoon.
Here’s his approach:
To make “The Pink and Blue Project” images, I visit the child’s room, where I display and rearrange his/her colored accessories. I ask my models to pose for me with their pink or blue objects, in an effort to [...]

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Where do you take your ugly daughter so that she can be fixed up?  Club Libby Lu!

Where do you take your ugly daughter so that she can be fixed up? Club Libby Lu!

I’m sure that the people who run the corporation that operates Libby Lu stores would object to my title for this post. Too bad. What else could you say about a store that slaps unnecessary makeup and shallow-minded accessories on little girls so that they can feel like their appearance is acceptable?
I learned [...]

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Would you like your young daughter to be the next Dream Girl USA?

If you’d like your young daughter to be the next Dream Girl USA, take a look at this photo essay published by the St. Louis Riverfront Times. The National Little Miss Dream Girl Pageant gave this photographer wide access to many aspects of the pageant.
These photos contained in the slide shows tell it all: exploited [...]

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Attitudes toward gender affects math performance by girls

It is often observed that girls do not perform as well as boys in mathematics. This difference is often overstated and it’s cause is often highly debated.  Many people have suggested that the basis for this difference is essentially biological.
It is now well established that a society’s attitude toward gender will significantly affect the performance [...]

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Why do boys wear pants and girls wear dresses?

It’s the political season and there are a lot of bad arguments being made these days. There are plenty of non sequiturs, red herrings, ad hominem attacks and ex hominem attacks. It is the season when we vividly see that there is no such thing as pure reason. Instead, cognition is always infused [...]

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Please don’t send me any store-bought greeting cards!

Please don’t send me any store-bought greeting cards!

I know that pre-written store-bought greeting cards are not the cause of America’s current downfall, but they are a symptom of America’s cultural, moral and educational decline. Really. I know that many of you are thinking that I’m way off base here, but let me give you a few examples based on [...]

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Gross parents enter their girls in gross “beauty” contest

There’s really little more that I can add to this clip, other than refer you to this post. 
Here’s the video.