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• I think this is a great way to promote education about DV. I think that by using this new technology as well, it will get people talking about the ad. Maybe not in a way that will initially be about
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• Not sure if this has anything to do with the game, but there is a book series called The Clique Series. And the cover of the books looks a hell of a lot like the cover of the game. But
  (posted to Video games give girls "life lessons" on how to achieve their social beauty standards)
• There is a great RP game for the DS called The World Ends With You. I would check it out! The controls are easy - and the clothing changing is interesting. In the game your advised to follow certain trends
  (posted to Video games give girls "life lessons" on how to achieve their social beauty standards)
• Sorry, but this needs to be said. I attended SUNY Albany and was in training for the collective and the woman who had taken over the program is awful. I was removed from the program for being 'too opinionated' in
  (posted to Wednesday Feminist Love: Women's and Gender Studies)
• I can understand that, but at the same time during the song "make a man out of you", Mulan is keeping up with the boys to become 'man' enough. And later in the movie men dress as women in order
  (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)

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• I do love Once On This Island, mostly for the fun music and sweet story. But I really think it's a problematic musical. It's white Americans writing a musical version of a Haitian novel, with Haitian characters (but never explicitly (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)
• This is a really beautiful piece. I believe that most, if not all, feminists can relate to the heartbreaking moment you have described above--those moments when we discover that the world is not trying to empower us with their stories (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)
• I dunno, I read those songs as all about Mulan facing and struggling against sexism -- especially "A Girl Worth Fighting For." As the men (all straight, naturally) obnoxiously wax poetic about the girls they want to win over, who (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)
• Yes, horrible. That song is not only horrifyingly racist, it gets some delightful misogyny in there, too. Not only with the "squaw" references -- the hilarious jokes are that the "red man is red" because he was kissed by a (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)
• I tried to comment on this a while ago, but my computer failed; however, apparently other posters on Feministing did not, and filled in what I was going to say. Thank you to ALL the posters above who wrote in (posted to Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's <em>The Little Mermaid</em>)

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