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“The bias came from an unlikely source — female reviewers.”

This is from a report on Politics Daily about our collective bias against females.

Is it an unlikely source? Really?

Think back on your life. Is it really shocking that other women are holding women back? Who was harsher on Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton?

Men? Not nearly as vicious, in my opinion.

Who’s been your worst boss ever?

A man? A woman.<——-

Maybe they’re all just better. At everything. Men, I mean.

“So despite the Post’s good intentions, this “democratization [did] not guarantee impartiality,” according to Rouse, “because favorites could still be identified” by photo, name and resume.”

News Flash you will, and I will, and all girls will, be favored or not based on our photo, name and resume.

The Washington Post chose a male to compliment its 78% male columnist roster as America’s Next Great Pundit.  There’s only 12% of women represented in PunditLand. The Washington Post and its readers chose a man. It’s readers chose a man.

The whole freaking world just likes men more than women, boys more than girls. Dispite all the murder, violence, war and rape – we still like what they have to say better. It is the way it is. They must be better at everything, all evidence points to it.

What can be done?

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There appear to be a great many still-existing Brick Walls in front of girls and women. Take this article Guys Still Hog Role of Intellectual Heavy Weight, which examines my professional frustrations.

My own Brick Wall is generally in the form of The Family Budget. Sometimes I, unfairly, imagine my husband as the guard dog protecting the wall.

When we come on brick walls we need to ask ourselves some questions and teach our daughters to do that same:

Scale it?

Have someone give me a lift?

Hack away at it little by little?

Tunnel under it?

Go around it?

Jump over it?

Chisel a hole through it?

Bomb it with dynamite?

Melt it?

Deconstruct it?

Remove it?

Climb it?

Who can help me get over it?

Who can I take with me?

You get the picture.

Rethink your Brick Walls.

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New Moon is one of the very few magazines 8- to 12-year-old girls can read without advertising. It’s a bi-monthy magazine and it also has a safe online component. Girls can chat with each other, build thier own virtual rooms, create their own avatar and upload a photo of their pet, and discuss hot topics like going green and favorite charities and play games.

This is create-your-own-media media. The content is submitted by girls for girls. Girls can send in and upload their own art, video, writing and photography. This is wonderful because it helps girls realize they don’t have to be passive consumers of media, but can be active participants in creating media for themselves and an audience of like-minded people.

The price is do-able at only $29.99 for an annual subscription to both the magazine and the website.

Here’s the thing: if New Moon doesn’t get some more subscribers ASAP they are going under. They need 250 more subscribers a month by the end of the year to survive.

It would be an awful world to live in if Abercrombie and with the sexualized t-shirts, the trashy Kardashians made it through the recession and an honest-to-goodness positive influence like New Moon vanished.

I bought an annual subscription for an early Christmas present for Ainsley. She’s super-thrilled with the online component. It’s become her new fav. spot on the web already. Older than Webkins, but still appropriate.

The website is great because I have access as a parent, there are no inappropriate ads and its well monitored by Nancy Gruver and her staff.

Order New Moon for your daughter, order it for your niece or grand-daughter as a Christmas Gift, donate a subscription to your local library or church group, or just make a charitable donation to the company so girls will have access to positive media. Order New Moon Now.

Full Disclosure: I am an affiliate of New Moon because I really do believe healthy, positive media is a must for any Girl Revolution.

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Be, perfect.

Matt. 5:20

A little coma in one’s life changes everything.

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