Advertising For Little Girls: Is It For Fun or Domestication and Sexualization? ... They are showing boys how it is acceptable to sexualize girls and expect girls" appearances to be domestic and sexy, evident in the combination of Barbie and her kitchen. ... Commercial catalogs and magazines of toys, clothes, music videos, cartoons, non-cartoon programs, advertising companies manipulating a mother's greed. ... "Teen magazines play important role in adolescent girls" lives" (Merskin). ... In Barbie commercials, little girls are the main characters. ...

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He wants to be part of the girls' world. ... Her father and all the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties...When my parents have somebody over they get lemonade and if it's a real racy affair Schlitz in tall glasses with 'They'll Do It Every time' cartoons stenciled on." ... Lengel continues to harass the girls. "Girls, I don't want to argue with you. ... The wealthy girls ignore him. ...

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On the contrary, they are often more affected than their kids, of course not by cartoons, but by shows that contain information about serious subjects such as parenthood. ... The trucks and weaponry toys are for boys and the dolls are for girls. ... A girl at an age of three was shown, dressed with a skirt and playing with dolls. ... A girl at the age of three was shown, dressed with a skirt and playing with dolls. ... "You have two boys mom, not a boy and a girl." ...

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Girls, on the verge of womanhood, are already searching for who they really are. ... We are, in a way, forcing girls and women to lie with their bodies just fill the perfect woman's shoes. ... Sure, the tune is catchy, and most would never actually think about the lyrics or even a Disney cartoon, but what they"re saying is that you need to suppress your true identity to be accepted by society, to get married, and make your family proud. ...

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Mothers and fathers tend to look at their baby girls as more fragile than their boys. Girls are encouraged to play with dolls, while boys are taught to play with trucks and army toys. ... Girls aren't seen in their commercials either. ... When I was a kid, I watched cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and my sister watched ones like Care Bears. ... Girls don't watch Ninja Turtles and boys don't watch Care Bears. ...

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However some boys and girls do not conform to the traditional expectations set by society. ... Through the media many children's cartoons are stereotyped, generally the main action "hero" is male being portrayed as having dangerous and exciting adventures, rescuing girls and animals, being dominant, active and brave, compared to females as they play a much more subordinate role being passive and caring. ... The other two girls continued to roll the play dough into very tiny balls. Station 4 At the drawing table there were four children, two girls and two boys. ... The other gir...

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Because of her background she had to be dressed up as a Puerto Rican girl. ... The author's culture and traditions were not the same with the American culture, and as a result, the girl was grown up on the verge of two different customs. ... She also describes her own experience of being seen stereotypically when the boy who took her to her first formal dance kissed her and without having received a passional response remarked, I thought you Latin girls were supposed to mature early. ... But for this man she was just "an Evita or a Maria: merely a character in his cartoon-populate...

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To illustrate this viewpoint, one can surely remember cat woman's tight black leather garment in the cartoon/ film "Batman". ... Young girls and men who internalize these representations do not realize that the media is not always telling the truth or giving an accurate portrayal of women. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate