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Friday, December 29, 2006

Bratz

From the December 4, 2006 New Yorker:
Fara Warner, the author of "Power of the Purse: How Smart Businesses Are Adapting to the World's Most Important Consumers - Women," goes further, writing that Bratz represent "a future where young girls don't need their dolls to show them the career choices they have open to them. They already know they can choose any career and pursue it. It's a future where the rules about the size and shape of women's bodies, and how women express their sexuality, are far broader and more open."
Oh, God. "Post-feminist" rhetoric, get thee behind me. This stuff makes me ill to read. And, you know, probably more so because I just finished Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (recommended) and am in the middle of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (also excellent). But dear God, has Ms. Warner ever seen these dolls? (link has sound). Or, more to the point, has she ever lived in the same world I live in? I just...I don't understand.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I bet Fara doesn't have a little girl. And she probably has big, fake boobs.

17:08  
Blogger The Stute Fish said...

Yeah, I bet she doesn't have children, period, or we'd see how fucking empowered she felt to "choose any career and pursue it." It's all very nice to feel that sexual display equals empowerment when you are single, childless, well-off, and educated, but it really doesn't work that well for the other 99-odd-percent of women...

17:25  

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