F{orget} Gender Stereotypes

Your genitalia does not determine who you are, what you like, who you love, or what you're capable of.

[followthestray]

I always hated when people told me how to live my life, even when I knew they meant well. It’s my life–and while I appreciate people sharing their life experience with me–I don’t appreciate being bullied into living a certain way based on someone else’s experience. When I realized I was treating the person I loved the same way, I understood why there was tension in our relationship. Now I see that when you love someone it’s better to provide them with the support and encouragement s/he needs to grow on their own–rather then try to mold them into something you think they should be or what you think you want them to be.

[fgentypes]

Powerful Ad Campaign By Dove Shows That Women Can ‘Choose Beautiful’. Which door would you choose? www.artFido.com/popular-art

Would you let a door define you as average or beautiful?

[thegaythirtysomething]

Do something with your life that would make a 1950s straight white man angry

[feelsmoor]

I’m already a lesbian who can’t cook what more do you want

[gaymanga]

OUT IN JAPAN project, 2015

by photographer Leslie Kee

Portraits of 111 Japanese LGBT people from teenagers to 60-somethings, including gay manga icon Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎, top). The photos will be on exhibition at Gap’s flagship Harajuku store from April 21st to April 28th, coinciding with Tokyo Rainbow Pride.

Sponsored by Gap (#rainbowgap) and the Japanese production of Rent (!), coming to Tokyo’s Theatre Creation (シアタークリエ) this September.

In a country where fewer than 19% of major corporations offer workplace protections to their queer workers, Gap has been notable for its visibility as a supporter of LGBT rights. It’s nice to see The Gap champion the work of the great fashion photographer Leslie Kee, who was unjustly arrested in 2013 on obscenity charges in a targeted censorship campaign.

Reblog if Tagame is giving you life.

[fgentypes]

How to Not Get Raped

My clothing line! http://www.GhostAndStars.com Support short films & sketches - http://www.patreon.com/annaakana Starring Anna Akana Brad Gage - http://www.y...

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Trans teen Jazz Jennings is the new face of Clean & Clear!!!

Let us sing a song of love for 14-year old Jazz Jennings, the transgender teen who transitioned at the age of five and has spent her childhood and young adulthood being a role model and an advocate for young trans people everywhere. Jazz came out to the world on "The Rosie Show" in 2011, in 2012 was interviewed by Barbara Walters on "20/20," and last year was named one of Time's 25 Influential Teens of 2014 and published the semi-autobiographical children's book "I Am Jazz," intended to help educate young people about what it means to be trans. Now, Jazz is taking her public profile to the next level by becoming the face of Clean & Clear's #SeeTheRealMe campaign. The campaign encourages girls to share their personal stories about embracing their true selves on social media. "The 'See the Real Me' campaign is so great at helping girls find the courage to open up to their peers and be themselves, and I could really relate to that," Jazz told PopSugar, in an ...

[fgentypes]

Voted the best department store in the world, Selfridges has all the latest designer collections, must-have toys & gifts for all the family

Gender-neutral department store line; Agender

[fgentypes]

Inside Selfridges' radical, gender-neutral department store

The new Agender pop-up offers a small but significant peek into a genderless future

[fgentypes]

I dream of a world where boys can wear makeup if they want to, and girls never feel like they have to wear makeup to be pretty.

[fgentypes]

Racing--now for girls!!!

[followthestray]

This Adorable Girls' Clothing Line Is Destroying Gender Stereotypes One Dress At a Time

"Butterflies are awesome and so are airplanes."

I’m taking up this cause and have decided to design and create gender-breaking clothes for my boys and I swear they will be awesome.

Who’s with me?

[fgentypes]

This article is part of what motivated me to start this blog in the first place.  I think it's awesome for us to fight against gender stereotyping of girls, but we can't forget boys too.  Why can't we have awesome clothes marketed to boys in pink and purple featuring baking and dolls and all things adorable?  

Once my life gets settled, I will be attempting this.

[fgentypes]

Batman--now for girls!!!

[fgentypes]

Superman--now for girls!!!

[followthestray]

Gender-Based Toy Marketing Returns

[fgentypes]

Though we’ve made great strides toward gender equity over the past 50 years, the world of toys looks a lot more like 1952 than 2012.

Excerpt:

"During my research into the role of gender in Sears catalog toy advertisements over the 20th century, I found that in 1975, very few toys were explicitly marketed according to gender, and nearly 70 percent showed no markings of gender whatsoever. In the 1970s, toy ads often defied gender stereotypes by showing girls building and playing airplane captain, and boys cooking in the kitchen.

But by 1995, the gendered advertising of toys had crept back to midcentury levels, and it’s even more extreme today. In fact, finding a toy that is not marketed either explicitly or subtly (through use of color, for example) by gender has become incredibly difficult.

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Such marketing taps into the deeply held beliefs about gender that still operate in our culture; many parents argue that their daughters and sons like different things. This is particularly true for boys: parents tend to stick with gender-typed toys for boys, either because they understand that the social costs for boys who transgress into the “pink” zone are especially high in a homophobic culture or because of their own desire for gender conformity."

[followthestray]

The ‘pink vs blue’ gender myth

[fgentypes]

Is there truth to the idea that men prefer blue and women like pink? Claudia Hammond investigates, and discovers why these colours matter more than we think.

Excerpt:

"Cultural norms may also shape colour preferences. In cultures where pink is considered the appropriate colour for a baby girl and blue for a baby boy, babies become accustomed from birth to spending time wearing or even surrounded by, those colours. This makes it hard to know whether any preferences expressed later on are hard-wired. But a study from 2011 tried to get closer to discovering what’s going on.When one-year-old girls and boys were shown pairs of identical objects such as bracelets, pill boxes and picture frames, but with one object pink and another of a second colour, they were no more likely to choose pink than any other colour. But after the age of two the girls started to like pink and, by four, boys were determined in their rejection of pink."