Category: girls
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Emma makes a good decision
I’m proud of my niece Emma, who is a six-feet-tall basketball star and valedictorian of her high school class. I’m especially proud of a tough decision she just made. Emma, who wants to be a physician, applied to 11 colleges and was accepted by nine—from the University of San Francisco to the University of Connecticut.…
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Why do we buy what we buy?
Marketing plays a big role in what we buy and what we think about ourselves , concludes Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter—Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. Orenstein says that each of us “is a cog in the round-the-clock, all-pervasive media machine aimed at our daughters—and at us—from…
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What do you stand for—style or substance?
A beautiful young woman described by the Dallas Morning News as “a sex-tape survivor turned reality star” visited Dallas to promote a “$29 goo that makes your kisser look bigger” at a major department store. According to the newspaper (Dallas Morning News, February 24, 2011), when she was asked about what she stands for, this…
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Is it cool to be smart?
Many girls use Facebook and Twitter to try to make themselves “cooler than they really are.” That’s the conclusion of a study by the Girl Scout Research Institute. Girls tend to portray themselves as “fun,” “funny” and “social,” according to an institute survey. Online, they downplay positive characteristics about themselves, including their intelligence, kindness and…