{"id":402,"date":"2009-05-29T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/the-pernicious-pinkification-of-little-girls\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:37:28","slug":"the-pernicious-pinkification-of-little-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/the-pernicious-pinkification-of-little-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The pernicious pinkification of little girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/the-pernicious-pinkification-of-little-girls-05kv305x7k2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vehement guest column from the Times Online UK<\/a> had me raising my arms and shouting &#8220;amen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All the Disney princesses are there in a terrifying tableau of simpering, gurning girlishness. Why are all these princesses, the apotheoses of modern girlhood, clasping their hands together in front of them, in an expression of coy submissiveness?&#8221; <em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/the-pernicious-pinkification-of-little-girls-05kv305x7k2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whole article<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m relieved that Ruby has thus far been able to hold onto her own opinions, more or less, after joining preschool. She actually seems more tuned into &#8220;boy characters&#8221; like Batman and Spiderman, who she has brought up by name, than any of the princesses (or Dora, or whoever). Her stated favorite color is a sophisticated-for-preschool purple, rather than pink.<\/p>\n<p>While she does enjoy dressing up, dancing around and being &#8220;fancy&#8221;, she does it with her own crazy tastes and ideals, rather than conforming to the princess standard. This is a kind of girlishness that&#8217;s just fine with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This vehement guest column from the Times Online UK had me raising my arms and shouting &#8220;amen!&#8221; &#8220;All the Disney princesses are there in a terrifying tableau of simpering, gurning girlishness. Why are all these princesses, the apotheoses of modern girlhood, clasping their hands together in front of them, in an expression of coy submissiveness?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-parenting","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}