July 21, 2010 Can you hear the drumbeat, Hollywood? It’s getting louder. Girl advocates like Jessica Lawrence head to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 4925 tomorrow to share firsthand data about how depictions of women and girls in the media affect youth health and are landing sideways. Small business entities like Melissa Wardy of Wisconsin based PigtailPals has devoted an … [Read more...]
Healthy Youth Media Act Pt 2: Can Change Be Legislated? (interview)
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: alcopops, All Things Girl, America the Beautiful, American Apparel, APA, APA Task force, appearance cues, Be the voice for girls, beauty myth, beyonce, boy toys, boys into monsters, Bratz, Capitol Hill, consumer advocacy, corporate pedophilia, dereon divas, dieting, eating-disorders, fashion-beauty-industry-expectations, FCC, FTC, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, gender equity, girl scouts, Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council, girls inc., GLI, GSA, GSUSA, H.R. 4925, harm of early sexualization, Healthy Media Youth Act, HGHW, hottie factor, HR4925, Huge, Jessica Lawrence, Lyn Mikel-Brown, meat marketing, media-literacy, Melissa Wardy, NCWO, obectification, Oct 22, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, parenting girls, PigTail Pals, Pink Think, plastic surgery, Pop culture impact on kids, preteens, raising girls, redefining girly, self-worth, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexism, sexist ads, Sexualization, Shelley Moore Capito, Single Ladies, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK! summit, sparksummit, support healthy media images for girls, surviving media morass, Tammy Baldwin, Tinkerbell, Wisconsin, Youth-advocacy
Sexualization Summit: Save the Date Oct 22, 2010 NYC
May 17, 2010 As irony would have it, on Thurs, May 13, in New York City, a small tribe of thought leaders convened on how to best address rampant sexualization of youth in media and marketing. Each invitee of this diverse group was hand-selected for the purpose of "bringing their entire communities" into the conversation and sharing next steps, best practices, and public … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-22-10, 2010, 7 year olds, academic rockstars, adolescence, adults behaving badly, All the Scholar Ladies, APA sexualization study, appearance cues, behavior, beyonce, boy toys, Bratz, children, Consuming kids, corporate pedophilia, Damaging Drek, dancing, dereon divas, desensitized, desire, Dr. Robyn, eating-disorders, emotional health, Empowering girls, harm, HGHW, hostile takeover of childhood, HR4925, Hunter College, hypersexualized, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, kidvid, Killing Us Softly 4, lapdancing, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media influence, mental health, Miley Cyrus, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pole dancing, poptarts, Pornification, preteens, public health policy, Pussycat Dolls, Robyn-Silverman, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexploitation, sexual-health-teens, sexualized childhood, Single Ladies, Susan Linn, Teen Choice Awards, true child, tweens, women's media center, Womens'