Category Archives: Girls

Girls Halloween Costume Contest

Posted on October 27, 2008 by traceesioux

Have you seen the stories about the Pornification of Halloween with alarming photos of girls who look more like porn fantasies than girls playing dress up? I wrote one of them last year. That was before I read So Sexy … Continue reading →

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So Sexy So Soon, The Sexualization of Childhood

Posted on September 29, 2008 by traceesioux

“Kids close your eyes!” How many times do you find yourself trying to protect your children from harmful and destructive images while watching family television? Two years ago, while watching television, I was assaulted with an image of a woman … Continue reading →

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Bikini Waxing & Early Puberty

Posted on September 2, 2008 by traceesioux

Cross-posted by Tracee Sioux from Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me. There was a story on MSNBC.com Today Show, Too young? Preteen girls get leg, bikini waxes, about how 20% of bikini wax customers at one Hollywood salon are tweens – … Continue reading →

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Mothers Passing Perfection Pressure Down

Posted on August 25, 2008 by traceesioux

by Tracee Sioux Perfection – it’s the pervasive modern-day feminine Achilles heel and we’re passing it down to our daughters according to The Supergirl Dilemma a report about the pressure girls today are under. Girls feel strong pressure to be … Continue reading →

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Girls Inc. Supergirl Dilemma

Posted on August 22, 2008 by traceesioux

Cross-Posted from Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me by Tracee Sioux I was waiting in the Drs. office with Ainsley analyzing a copy of Girls Inc.’s The Supergirl Dilemma. A report about what kind of stereotypes girls are still dealing with … Continue reading →

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10 Antidotes to Girls’ Self-Sexualization

Posted on August 14, 2008 by traceesioux

I’m so excited to be invited to regularly cross-post on Moms Speak Up! My mission is to revolutionize the perception of Girlness and the Culture of Girlness. Please visit Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me to find out how. Thanks for … Continue reading →

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Empowering girls: Hootchy Clothes and Mean Girls

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Julie Pippert

Many thanks to guest poster Tracee Sioux for providing this thought-provoking essay: If you are using words like hootchy, skank, slut, whore or any other sexually derogatory word to describe the clothing (whether inappropriate or not) of any girl you … Continue reading →

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It Looks Like There Are Two Elephants in the Room — Gender and Race

Posted on February 28, 2008 by PunditMom

Critics of women bloggers, and mommy bloggers in particular, want the rest of the world to believe we don’t want to talk about anything more complicated than potty training, soccer schedules and another new way to make hamburger for dinner. … Continue reading →

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Princesses Are Not Welcome

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Victoria

My daughter recently came back from a stay at Casa de Nana’s and with her came a pair of pink slippers.  I don’t shun pink all together but I don’t love it.  When I found out I was having a … Continue reading →

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Not Toxic in the Traditional Sense of the Word but Still Toxic…

Posted on November 12, 2007 by admin

I thought I;d seen it all with padded bras for six year olds and Girls Gone Wild-inspired hot tub party bus toys and stripper poles being sold in the toy section and unmistakably phallic Dora toys and 1970′s Tab commercials … Continue reading →

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