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Has anyone ever worried about whether girls were being well served by children’s entertainment? Girls have been pandered to, sure — as with the whole Disney princess phenomenon. But worried about girls? Never.

Not to interrupt a good rant, but...

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has anyone worried previously whether boy-skewed entertainment was bad for girls? That's what I meant. And I don't think it has happened.

With that I completely agree. That's part of the fucked up sexual dynamic. Girls are corruptible only in the sense that their virginity must be preserved, at all costs, while still keeping them attractive enough to have that virginity offered up at a later date. Boys, on the other hand, are in danger of being made into fags, and so must not only be protected from anything sissifying, but must also be given ample time to beat the shit out of things in a healthy, consequence-free way.

Pardon me while I go throw up.

So even as TV and movies make us worry more and more about our appearance, all that sitting around watching TV and movies makes us fatter and fatter, so we end up less and less happy.

This stuck out at me:

believes that series like “iCarly” show boys only the way girls want to see them.

Um, hello? Practically an entire childhood, as a girl, seeing girls/women on tv that were most certainly a male fantasy; only how men want to see women. But nobody ever cares about that.

Those worrying articles about girls are still stuck in the domain of sexuality/body image. Those things are important, but can we go even deeper? I'd like to see some real critical analysis of the way women are written as characters, the ways they ring hollow.

That's why I read Flickfilosopher, of course. But I wish more people did it.