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Which of These Is Not Like The Others?

GiggleSugar — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:30:00 -0800

It's the vest. If he had a cape, he'd be a hyper-masculine bad ass in no time.

Cameron Smiles & Nods On Japanese TV

GiggleSugar — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:00 -0700

Poor Cameron. She recently made an appearance on Japanese TV to promote Shrek The Third and was subjected to swamp inspired sushi, an escort with drawn-on facial hair, and some woman's mention of her sex(less) life. Luckily, Cameron's a trooper and has that winning smile to fall back on when things get a little too uncomfortable. (Thanks, Best Week Ever!)

Those Pirates Are At It Again!

GiggleSugar — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:01:13 -0700

I hate to see what their children are going to look like. (Thanks for the send, CatarinaBella521!)

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Say What? Spike Jonze's New Film Is Like a Baby Girl

TresSugar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:00:00 -0700

"It's like the studio was expecting a boy, and I gave birth to a girl. And now they're learning to love and accept their daughter."

- Director Spike Jonze on his struggles with Warner Brothers, who wanted his adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children's classic Where the Wild Things Are to be more like Shrek and Madagascar than an avant-garde film. Jonze, however, wanted to stay true to the original book and to make a film that didn't talk down to children. What do you think of his arresting analogy?

Princess Culture Might Not Be Healthy For Girls

TresSugar — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:10:00 -0700

I know a very smart, independent, tomboyish 5-year-old who is enthralled by the idea of being a princess. It was Fiona from the Shrek films that got her hooked.

Girls have always loved playing with dolls and pretending they're princesses, but it appears to be crammed down their throats even more now by toy manufacturers and movie studios. There are princess baby clothes, princess-related Barbie items, and the entire Disney Princess franchise, featuring characters from Sleeping Beauty to Mulan. Even tough chick Dora the Explorer wears crowns sometimes!

Many people who are trying to raise nonbratty girls with aspirations beyond being pretty and glamorous worry that selling the princess ethos to girls might be a bad idea. Jean Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State and author of The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, worries as well. She argues, "It just encourages parents who put their kids on a pedestal - and who encourage their kids a lot and rarely criticize."

Twenge and her co-author W. Keith Campbell found that although a study of college-age men and women showed that men in that age group are more likely to exhibit narcissistic traits, the rate at which college-age women were developing narcissistic traits was four times that of the men.

Is the fantasy of being a princess just an inevitable rite of passage for girls? Or would girls be better off heeding, "Do not pass Princess Lane, do not collect crown"?

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