I usually avoid posting Facebook statuses beyond informing people that I am home or back in Oberlin at the beginning and end of breaks, but I feel like I need to right now. I dont know who all has seen the same few videos posted on Facebook that I have, questioning the boxes our society puts girls into, but I think theyre worth discussing. One pushes against teaching girls to focus on their looks, saying that instead we should tell girls they are pretty smart. Another fights the idea that doing something like a girl is a bad thing. These videos are well-made, and the surface-level messages they present are great. But does anyone else find it troubling that these are advertisements? Why is it okay to use the fact that my confidence plummet[ed] during puberty along with so many other girls, as the second video I just mentioned notes, to sell Always feminine products? And how does encouraging girls to think about science fairs instead of looking cute connect to Verizon? Maybe Im being overly sensitive here, but I feel like my feminist self is being preyed upon by Don Draper-esque masterminds in the ad agency. Here are the videos, what do you think? fastcocreate/3031750/verizon-points-out-the-little-things-that-have-a-big-impact-on-girls-in-math-and-science fastcocreate/3032424/this-always-ad-asks-what-it-means-to-do-something-like-a-girl?partner=newsletter
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:31:33 +0000
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