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Supergirl’s Adoption Lens: Swooping Past Stereotypes

April 14, 2016 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

April 14, 2016 Most know Superman and Supergirl are adopted, along with Peter Parker as Spiderman, Dick Grayson as Robin, and heck even Bamm Bamm Rubble from the Flintstones...but all too often in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: adoption, adoption at the movies, adoption stereotypes, adoptive families in media, anti-bullying, Brave Girls Alliance, Bullied, Bystanding vs upstanding, Carrie Goldman, Chyler Leigh, Comic Con, Comics, Curse of the Good Girl, Empowering girls, female superheroes, girlpower, media impact on girls, media portrayal of adoption, Melissa Benoist, pop culture anti-bullying, pop culture hero coalition, portrait of an adoption, Rachel Simmons, relational aggression, sheroes, SuperGirl, SuperGirls Speak Out, superheroes, Upstanding

I Am Elemental: Superheroes Strike A Pitch Perfect Toy Tenor

May 11, 2015 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

May 11, 2015 With superheroes crushing box office numbers with Hulk style force and toy merchandisers frantically scrambling to address market demand for sheroes deleted from mass media like an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #KeepMeridaBrave, A Mighty Girl, Amy-Jussel, Brave, Comics, female superheroes, Gender neutral toys, girls empowerment, girls toys, healthy girls toys, healthy toys, I Am Elemental Toys, IAmElemental, Joan of Arc, Julie Kerwin, play with power, positive picks, prosocial toys, SEL, SheHeroes, sheroes, social emotional learning toys, superheroes, toy industry, Toys

Hollywood Climate Change: Warming to Sheroes or Still in Denial?

January 7, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Jan. 7, 2014 2014 is the year of Redefining Girly. Not just Redefining Girly, the new book on gender stereotypes and sexualization of kids by parent actionist Melissa Wardy, but redefining girly in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Bechdel Test, Brave Girls Alliance, Brave Girls Want, female superheroes, Female-Action-Heroes, Frozen and Catching Fire teen heroines, Geena Davis Institute, Geena-Davis, gender equity, gender inequity, Gender Portrayal, Keep Merida Brave, media matters, media-literacy, Miss Representation, money talks Hollywood, not buying it, redefining girly, See Jane, sexism, Sexualization, Shaping Youth, sheroes, Sheroes Sell, stereotypes in media, stereotypes-girls, strong female characters, strong female roles make more money, Top 50 movies by Bechdel breakdown, toy industry complicity, Vapid Values, Vocativ, Women in Film, Women in Hollywood, Women in Media, Wonder Woman film, year of women at box office

Dora The Explorer: Discover the World, Not the Mall

February 26, 2009 by Amy Jussel 24 Comments

Feb. 26, 2009 Oh fer cripes sakes. Say it ain’t so. Is Dora the Explorer getting a makeover and turning tween TOO?! Leave her alone! This "age-compression" bit is putting a new dent in my TMJ-clenched … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: age compression, APA sexualization study, bilingual, Boots the monkey, cartoon characters, cartoons, Dora the Explorer, Early-Sexualization, Facelifts, female superheroes, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Kids, Lyn Mikel-Brown, makeovers, Manga, Mattel, Packaging-Girlhood, Parent Dish, preschool, Sharon Lamb, Silk Spectre, Strawberry-Shortcake, tweens, Viacom, Watchmen

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