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If you put all ten together they spill out the entire inscription put on the inside of the classic One Ring. I don’t know about you other geek gals, but I’d love to wear these to a fancy dress occasion…they’re practically jewelry after all.
Back in August, I showed you guys the Angry Birds bra, but for those gals who prefer old school games to those available through smart phones, you might prefer this fun Pac Man bra instead.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
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Having written about girls’ adolescence, journalist Peggy Orenstein is quite the expert in parenting of young girls.
Her attempt in raising her daughter free of the girlie-girl stereotype, however, was nuked when – in what seems like an overnight transition – her 3-year-old daughter became enamored with being a princess.
And so began Peggy’s journey in understanding the "princess phase" – and the corporate drive to foster and cash in that phenomenon.
Orenstein takes us on a tour of the princess industrial complex, its practices as coolly calculating as its products are soft and fluffy. She describes a toy fair, held at the Javits Center in New York, at which the merchandise for girls seems to come in only one color: pink jewelry boxes, pink vanity mirrors, pink telephones, pink hair dryers, pink fur stoles. “Is all this pink really necessary?” Orenstein finally asks a sales rep.
“Only if you want to make money,” he replies.
The toy fair is one of many field trips undertaken by Orenstein in her effort to stem the frothy pink tide of princess products threatening to engulf her young daughter. The author of “Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap,” among other books, Orenstein is flummoxed by the intensity of the marketing blitz aimed at girls barely old enough to read the label on their Bonne Bell Lip Smackers. “I had read stacks of books devoted to girls’ adolescence,” she writes, “but where was I to turn to understand the new culture of little girls, from toddler to ‘tween,’ to help decipher the potential impact — if any — of the images and ideas they were absorbing about who they should be, what they should buy, what made them girls?”
Link | Peggy’s Book: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinematical put together a shockingly small list of great geeky girl movie characters. They’re all fine examples, but surely there must be more out there along the lines of Thora Birch in Ghost World (left).
Geeky girls are few and far between in the 100+ years of cinema, but they are key to the revelation that technology and freethinking are not the sole playground of men. Geekology is omnisexual, and has been since…well that’s the mystery.
Check out their list, and tell us what they missed. They did well as far as post 1990 goes, but what about the classics? I’m calling dibs on Lt. Uhura, possibly the first geek girl who simultaneously had a free, sometimes kooky mind, and access to a computer. Who else is a geek grrl of filmdom?
Link (Image: MGM)
