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A Gaggle of Squealing Girls Can’t Love Science?
| Gender issues, Gender Roles, Girls, Maureen Johnson, Science, Sexism, Technology
Some of you may recall the great gender based assignment rage of 2013. If not, start here. So, here’s an update. This year, the Tween gets to research a scientist. She adores science. So I asked her the other day, have you picked your scientist yet? Apparently, she is waiting to be assigned her scientist. […]
On the Megaphone: Double Standards in the World of Teens
| Gender issues, Gender Roles, Sex and Sexuality, Teen Issues
This is not going to be a shiny and happy post. If you need shiny and happy, click elsewhere. Christie has lost her shiny and happy right now, and there is not enough chocolate right now to bring it back.I am so sick and tired of double standards. I am tired of all that is […]
Girls Against Girls {Book Review, Discussion & Giveaway}
| Bonnie Burton, Bullying, Feminism, Gender issues, Girls, Girls Against Girls, Nonfiction, Teen Issues, Zest Books
My heart speeds up. I see a single bead of sweat start to fall down my cheek. Soon that bead of sweat will be a tear, but not quite yet. She is coming. I stand at the bus stop waiting to go to school and she is coming. I am in the 5th grade, alternately […]
“‘Cause I’m just a girl, little ‘ol me Don’t let me out of your sight I’m just a girl, all pretty and petite So don’t let me have any rights” – No Doubt, Just a Girl I watch the Walking Dead. I have seen every episode. Afterwards, I hop online and go to the forums […]
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