Monthly Archives: November 2009

Alcohol Too?

Gender biased is in everything, even alcohol advertising. Even if you don’t drink, or haven’t watched that many commercials, I’m sure you could distinguish which ads are guy drinks and which are female drinks as soon as you saw them. What makes a drink a guy or girl one? From what I have noticed, girl …

November 24, 2009 – 1:15 pm | By kmarsh | Posted in Issue | Comments (3)

Island of the Aunts

Island of the Aunts

By: Eva Ibbotson

November 18, 2009 – 1:11 pm | By kmarsh | Posted in Book Talk | Comments (4)

Girls + Boys + Gender Stereotypes

Kids are growing up in a world where there are boy toys and girl toys. When you look in a catalog or any sort of advertisement for toys, you can clearly distinguish which toys are meant for girls and which are meant for boys. When did the gender inequality begin? Or is it just one …

November 17, 2009 – 12:56 pm | By kmarsh | Posted in Issue | Comments (4)

A Twenty Five Percent Chance

The first sentence I choose to defend is the starting one. “Much of the Snaid-Anacs’ day is spent in ritual and ceremony.” I categorized this as stereotyping because stereotyping by my definition is thinking that, just because someone belongs to a certain collective, they are all the same. An example of this would be that …

November 3, 2009 – 3:04 pm | By kmarsh | Posted in Social Studies | Comments (1)