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Girls with Autistic Spectrum Disorders Less Likely to be Diagnosed
A five-year old boy has an obsession with vacuum cleaners while his five-year old female playmate has an obsession with monkeys. Which kid gets spotted for Autism Spectrum Disorder testing?According to some concerned ASD researchers, the girl might well be just as likely to have Asperger's Syndrome--a disorder at the mild end of the...
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Girlhood Cage Match: Pixies vs. Princesses
We've managed to fight off the princess industrial complex for a few years now, but I fully admit I'm into fairies and don't mind telling my daughter all sorts of stories about these recalcitrant, jealous sprites who cause all manner of mischief and glee. So I was delighted to read this story from Dodai at Jezebel about a cultural child...
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10 Names to Give Your Under 5 Daughter for Her . . . You Know
10) Cha-cha/hoo-ha/etc. In other words "Something whose name we dare not speak, so we replace it with nonsense syllables." Not promising in terms of open information sharing. With the right attitude, I suppose it can be pulled off, but for me these have all been tainted irrevocably by the "Hoo-haa Monolgues" episode. Read more...
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Part I: Why Parents of Girls Have it Better
When my husband and I started trying to get pregnant, we never talked gender. We just had "the talk," the one about "the child" and "the baby." When my daughter crossed her legs the entire time the ultrasoundtechnician was pushing around on her little house, we resigned ourselves to continuing to talk about "...
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Didgeridoo Not For Girls After All
The publisher of The Daring Book for Girls will remove a section which teaches girls how to play the didgeridoo after criticism from indigenous commentators. Academic and Aboriginal education advocate Mark Rose said it was an "extreme faux pas" on the part of publisher HarperCollins as cultural protocols around the instrument include a ban on f...
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Girls, Girls, Girls
A couple of weeks ago, my 6-year old daughter was looking over my shoulder as I was reading a magazine. The mag in question was something innocuous like Real Simple. I flipped to a page that had an ad for some miracle anti-aging lotion that featured an unlined-but-mature woman. My girl quickly asked me, as I was about to flip the page, "do yo...
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Mummy’s (Hairless) Little Angels
Okay, now, where were we with the "growing up too soon," "sexualising young girls," "can't a kid be a kid (and then a tween and then a gawky teen)" discussion? Because here's a fun little trend to add to the mix: waxing girls so young they become permanently hairless, you know, where they won't have hair fo...
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Star Baby: Why is Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet Giggling?
Why is Jennifer Garner's adorable daughter giggling? 'Cos she knows she's looking good. At two years old, you can totally embrace the horizontal stripe thing. Once you hit adulthood, well that pattern is best to be avoided. But Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet looks adorable in this Beth dress from Little Marc. The entire Little...
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The Problem With Pink
Particularly pertinent to our current Gender Issue is this provocative article in the SMH. Monica Dux's piece, "Pink link to inequality", argues that princess culture and raunch culture are related: the same girls who twirl a fairy wand may one day be twirling around a strip pole. "we seem to be overlooking the pink elephant in the nursery, the...
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