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ParaNorman: what’s wrong with this picture?
Movie titled for its male protagonist? Check. Male/ female ratio 4:1 (mirrored by monsters/ dead people)? Check. Lone female sexualized? Check. Girls make up half of the population of children, so why...
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Girls gone missing in new Halloween movies for kids
As if Halloween wasn’t sexist enough already with its sexy “cute” costumes aggressively marketed to little girls, this season Hollywood delivers not one, but three animated male-centered monster...
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Girls gone missing from kids’ movies: “Wreck-It Ralph”
Another day of driving my three year old daughter to school, another day she gets to see, and point at, a giant animated sexist ad go past her plastered on the side of a bus. Another day that my...
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Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing From Children’s Movies in 2012
I’ve been avoiding writing this post. I knew that female characters in children’s movies were not faring well in 2012. Not in number and not in stature. But I kept hoping. Hoping that somehow, before...
View ArticleClassic Minority Feisty in ParaNorman
I got this comment from Stace: I’m grateful to you for giving me the term ‘Minority Feisty’, because indeed, there is a girl character (a nerdy, excluded type with a monobrow who plays the witch in a...
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Reel Girl’s Halloween List of Monster Movies For Kids Starring Females
My 8 year old daughter is home sick today, and we were looking for a Halloween movie to watch starring a girl. This depressing task reminded me that once again it’s time to post the annual Reel Girl’s...
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