Two Gender Yargs

[mrissa]

So here I am looking through children's market listings, making notes, and I came upon this statement, quoted verbatim from the publisher in question: "We want nonfiction specfiically targeted to girls. If the approach would appeal to boys as well as girls, it is not right for American Girl Library."

This reflects a view of both boys and girls that is so alien to me that I can hardly even count how many fundamentla disagreements I have with this mindset. It's a very good thing I have no intention of writing for American Girl Library nor ever have, or my dream would be hereby crushed.

And then, the Victoria's Secret holiday catalog arrived. They always send this ridiculous thing, where you can order two sweaters, five pairs of panties, and a safari, or something stupid like that. This time, on page four, it reads, "No matter what role you play, underneath it all, every woman is an angel."

What freakin' year is this? 1886? Honestly!!! Every woman is an angel my lily-white angelic ASS!

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[tanaise.livejournal.com]

The most fun you can have with a victoria's secret is playing 'find the airbrushing.' My favorite ever (well, other than the fact that these women have no nipples!) was where the top from one photo got grafted onto the body of another, so what the upper and lower bodies were doing was dramatically different. I think the lower body was doing like, some sort of sideways stretch, where as the upper body was doing a cheerleader jump.