Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Implications For Girlhood & Beyond

Comedian Chris Rock joked that after his daughter’s birth, his #1 job changed to “keeping my baby off the pole”.  That’s probably not a bad idea, given the increasing acceptance of “play stripping" in pop culture.

  Two recent cases in point--three underage teens were caught in an ABC sting of a Modesto club. The trio were paid pole dancers who had convinced their parents they were at sleepovers. Another case currently in the news is that of a 17-year old in a civil trial against members of the DeAnza College baseball team, accusing them of gang rape while she was passed out drunk. Part of the case hinges on whether or not she was intoxicated at the time of giving them suggestive lap dances.

 Extreme? Maybe, but when stripper poles start showing in Miley Cyrus videos (during the Hannah Montana era), parents may want to take notice.

Author Peggy Orenstein has written a thoughtful and somewhat alarming book exploring how pop culture influences are evolving girls from Disney Princesses into Lindsay Lohan train wrecks.

Cinderalla Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture isn't a diatribe again Disney and Orenstein isn’t an angry feminist on a mission.  She’s a relatively new mom, living in the “neo hippie enclave” of Berkeley.  Open minded for sure, but also concerned about the pull between the values she’s attempting to teach and the magnetic influences of media and marketing.

She charts the rise of the Disney Princesses as well as the attendant consumer culture.  Interesting factoid--the Princesses never look at each other, not even during live shows like Disney on Ice.  Check it out for yourself next time you’re at the mall--it’s downright creepy!

Orenstein also delves into other recent phenomenon such as the rise of American Girl dolls, the brief flirtation with Grrrl Power, and a continuing obsession with all things pink. 

She makes a cogent case that girls are learning that being pretty and pleasing boys/men, even at the expense of their own pleasure, is something to strive for.

The book is a fascinating and fairly quick read--I couldn’t put it down.

 

 

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