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It's 2013, not 1985, but it?s still considerably harder for my preschool-age daughter to find representations of herself onscreen then it will be for our newborn son, once he starts watching TV.
We?ve come a long way from the days when Katha Pollitt coined the term ?Smurfette Principle? to describe children?s fare that offered just one, wholly stereotyped female in a vast sea of male characters, but still, studies have found that, on average, children?s television and family films offer about one female with a speaking part for every two males. While it?s tempting to think that strong girl characters like Brave?s Merida are changing things, the data shows that in family films, at least, the unbalanced gender ratio has been stagnant for more than 20 years, according to Stacy Smith, a USC communications professor.??????????
Why? Supposedly, girls will watch so-called boy?s content, with male leads and action-packed adventures, but boys won?t watch girls? shows, starring girl protagonists and girl-friendly storylines. And research suggests that this assumption still influences the choices of those making children?s fare. Smith, who?s done tons of number-crunching into gender portrayals in media, surveyed the folks who make G, PG, and PG-13 movies, and found the belief that ?girls will watch stories about boys, but boys won?t watch stories about girls? was ?almost axiomatic? among interviewees. Dafna Lemish, a children?s media expert at Southern Illinois University, said most of the 135 American and international children?s TV creators she surveyed engaged in a kind of cultural buck-passing, claiming they themselves didn?t themselves believe the conventional wisdom, but everyone else did.
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