Created for Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium

I recently watched afternoon cartoons on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and I was shocked to find a flood of highly gendered toy commercials. These ads not only market toys to children but it also promotes and encourages gender specific values that are very limiting to boys and …

Filed under: Advertising
Tags: Advertising, Barbie, Cartoon Network, Commercials, Gender, Iron Man, Nerf, Nickelodeon, Reel Grrls, Sexism, Socialization, Toys, Youth

The recently released November issue of GQ has some highly sexualized photos of select members of the Glee cast.  I weigh in on the impact that a photo shoot that takes actors who play high school students on a widely popular television show has on the sexual and gender identities of young people and …

Filed under: Television
Tags: Cory Montieth, Dianna Agron, Glee, GQ, Infantilization, Lea Michele, Men’s Magazines, Sexuality, Sexualization, Young People, Youth