American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.” — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done judiciously:taking to little girls about body image and dieting, for example, can actually introduce them to disordered behavior rather than inoculating them against it. I may be taking a bit of a leap here, but to… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share
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