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Why I Won’t Buy My Daughter A Pink Toy Vacuum Cleaner

Why I Won’t Buy My Daughter A Pink Toy Vacuum Cleaner

Yes, the whole ‘pink is for girls and blue is for boys’ thing bothers me. It didn’t, necessarily, until I had my son and I had to have all those conversations with myself about the kind of parent I hoped to be. I hoped to be the kind of parent who was fun. I hoped to be […]

10 years ago

This Amazing Mum Is Fighting The Sexualisation Of Little Girls One Doll At A Time

This Amazing Mum Is Fighting The Sexualisation Of Little Girls One Doll At A Time

Australian artist Sonia Singh is fighting the sexualisation of little girls one face at a time by giving Bratz dolls a make-under. This Tasmanian mum is changing the face of how little girls see beauty by one simple gesture: removing make-up. Sonia removes the heavily-made-up faces of the popular dolls to remind young girls that ‘au natural’ is beautiful […]

10 years ago