She should have the option of dressing like a tomboy, you know?

Honestly, though, girls dressed as pirates have much greater societal acceptance than boys dressed as princesses. If I dress Aeryn in Dylan's hand-me-downs, nobody says a word. If Dylan wants to dress up as Abby in pink fairy wings and a tiara, it's immediately a topic of conversation.

I think it's important that we, as a society working towards equal treatment of the sexes, not let feminism turn into a knee-jerk demonization of anything feminine. The pink Legos aren't inferior in construction to the old school primary colored ones - except for the minifig redesign, everything in the Friends series is still completely interchangeable with any other Lego set.

here's a Mother Jones article about Komen in case anyone is interested. Sorry if I missed it linked above.

This part concludes the piece:

The outcry seems to have helped fundraising at both organizations. On Thursday, both Komen and Planned Parenthood announced large donations, with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledging $250,000 to Planned Parenthood and Brinker saying that contributions to Komen were up "one hundred percent."

A minor story, but good news, and evidence how times have changed:

JC Penny Is Standing By Ellen, Ignores Anti-Gay Group

JC Penny is standing strong against an anti-gay group calling on it to terminate its partnership with Ellen DeGeneres, Andy Towle reports. “In an emailed statement to Yahoo Shine, J.C. Penney confirmed it “stands behind its partnership with Ellen DeGeneres,” as do most Americans. More than 10,000 people have “signed a petition drawn up by GLAAD to support Ellen, and 95 percent of the L.A. Times readers supported JC Penney hiring Ellen in a poll.” The company’s commitment is just another indication of how times — and attitudes — have changed. Back in 1997, JC Penney did respond to pressure from the American Family Association and pulled its sponsorship of The Ellen Show after DeGeneres and her sitcom character Ellen Morgan came out as gay.

If I had worn anything across my ass, it would have a footprint on it, too. Felicia Pearson needs to sponsor the breast-cancer-pink nailgun. (Wait...this is why I'm not in PR, isn't it? Well, that and the four million tells.) "How my hair look?"

I think everyone should use "for the cure" in everything possible.

Good on JC Penney.

Brinker saying that contributions to Komen were up "one hundred percent."

Uh huh. Not that I doubt that wingnuts love a give "piss off the liberals" cause, but I'd like to see some numbers on that.

I think everyone should use "for the cure" in everything possible.

I'm about to go to the bathroom for the cure.

Justice is what used to be Limited Too!, and is, as far as I can tell, excessively glittered and pink and mini-adult (if you're the kind of adult woman who would likely audition to be on The Bachelor -- ahem). I could be wrong, but my reaction to walking by the window in the mall is to RUN.

"I'm for the cure. What? I like their music!"

Didn't Komen actually go after The Cure once?

I think it's important that we, as a society working towards equal treatment of the sexes, not let feminism turn into a knee-jerk demonization of anything feminine.

Oh, absolutely. Took me a long time to learn that, when I was younger: that the way to be a feminist was not to denigrate things which were associated with femininity.

But it is a complicated problem, because we so end up with these little boxes instead: feminine (pink, dresses, glitter, ponies) here, and masculine (blue, overalls, dinosaurs, trucks) there, and hardly anyone is allowed to pick from both boxes at once. And you're right--definitely not boys.

But that brings me back around to the source of it all, which is that things which are associated with femininity are inherently less valuable than things which are associated with masculinity. Girls can "level up" by going masculine (to a point), but boys are not allowed to go feminine, because that's a step "down". The subtext is that pink and glitter contaminate anything they touch with their dangerous femininity. And that's okay for girls, because they're already feminine, but not for boys.

Grr, argh.