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December 20, 2002

girl culture

Don't you just love the culture into which girls are forced to assimilate?

Category: gender & sexuality

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Posted by zephoria at December 20, 2002 11:51 PM

Comments (3)

zarathustra:

I dont get it, how are they being forced? I don't see Martha Burk around there...

Posted by zarathustra | December 21, 2002 4:24 PM

Posted on December 21, 2002 16:24

ze:

We live in a society that is magnifying the need to homogenize while it's simultanteously telling us that uniqueness is allowed. A homogenous society means obedience to authority, mass merchandise, societal acceptance. The further someone is from the norm, the more difficult it is to build esteem, especially in youth cultures. Read some of Henry Jenkins' writing on the Columbine murders.

Posted by ze | December 21, 2002 5:25 PM

Posted on December 21, 2002 17:25

Zarathustra:

Will do...but it still sounds like the old problem of the herd to me... maybe it's a lot more internal than we think.

Posted by Zarathustra | December 22, 2002 2:10 PM

Posted on December 22, 2002 14:10