jamesisburning:

feministdisney:

ravengeary:

Incoherent with rage.

JCPenney is in hot water today for marketing a t-shirt to little girls that promotes outrageously sexist messages. But while they’ve been busying yanking that shirt from their online availability, we find that this gem is still available.

The shirt says that a girl’s best subjects are boys, shopping, music, and, dancing — sentiments that don’t deviate too much from the other design encouraging little girls to think of themselves as too pretty to study mathematics.

So aggravating.    It’s ridiculous how easy it is to observe how girls start to bow under societal pressure the older they get.  When they’re little, they’re all about athletics, problem solving math, reading, everything.  Most if not all of them.   Once they get older, the majority of them they feign disinterest with these things for many of their formative years, lest others chastise them for being “uncool.”   Where is their definition of “cool” coming from?  Things like this

There were Disney princess shirts at Old Navy about a year ago with similar sayings, though not nearly as outrageous as these.

(via jamesisburning-deactivated20110)

• 1 year ago

• clothing
• fashion
• feminism
• girls
• sexism
• children

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1. theyellowninja reblogged this from feministthought
2. nowherezone11 reblogged this from feministdisney
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7. aleeksandra118 reblogged this from lips-richmond and added:

   ridiculous.

8. lipstickandlasers likes this
9. mycoldestwinter reblogged this from feministdisney and added:

   Emanzipation heute, Teil 3.

10. the-wardrobeintocamelot reblogged this from thevictorioushound and added:

    I am too mature for your feminist bull shit. It’s a fucking shirt. Who gives a shit? Deal with it.

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12. themidnightmystique reblogged this from fiplans and added:

    People are too easily offended. Political correctness has gone crazy. Just ‘cause a girl sees this t-shirt doesn’t mean...

13. gingerberrycat reblogged this from mustbefrombrooklyn
14. fiplans reblogged this from lucgiraffe
15. painted-poppies reblogged this from autoimmunelife and added:

    So, what is the problem with this shirt? It’s sexist? Really? Come on now, that’s stupid. Some females are like that, a...

16. evenphilosopherswanttobekissed reblogged this from stfusexists
17. chasing-roadrunners likes this
18. melissalanette reblogged this from autoimmunelife and added:

    The worst part about all of this? The clothing brand that makes these shirts is called ‘Self Esteem’. I’m not even...

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28. brailey reblogged this from edgarasche and added:

    It’s reallyyyy ridiculous.

29. ghoulishprincess likes this
30. olga-lemongrass reblogged this from stfusexists and added:

    I used to work at this piece of crap. UGH.

31. rhymeswithjake reblogged this from justinjewmanji
32. greetingsfromthemoonkingdom reblogged this from justinjewmanji and added:

    omg i really want them XD they should just market them to like gay men and problem solved XD

33. justinjewmanji reblogged this from jacjacspider and added:

    is it bad these are my best subjects too?

34. razingcomplacency reblogged this from stfusexists and added:

    Seriously? x.x

35. goat--milk likes this
36. bubbybobble reblogged this from feministthought and added:

    lol Good lord, the amount of fail in this design is astounding. The only thing missing from that is sandwich making.

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43. uctdgirl reblogged this from hungryfeminist and added:

    Ugh! We need to be empowering these girls so they can be confident and smart women, not telling them to just be pretty!...

44. patchwork-girlfriend reblogged this from stfusexists and added:

    So many rants, so little time. The fact that I am a former JCPenney employee doesn’t help. Like I needed another reason...

45. highoffinformation likes this
46. steadfastserenada reblogged this from stfusexists and added:

    I can’t see young girls’ clothing without being really really sad.

47. ufo-potato reblogged this from feministdisney and added:

    WHAT. THE. FUCK.

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49. mustbefrombrooklyn reblogged this from danceatthishour and added:

    Absolutely. This shirt is problematic and makes me uncomfortable, but for more reasons than the conversation is actually...

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