Breast milk Nazis are a thing, dudeby skip 06/13/2017, 7:32pm PDT
Vested Id wrote:
(The journalist) asked me how long a mother should feed her baby. And it was that word should that brought me up short. Because I will never tell a woman what she should do with her body.
You're lucky (or not) if you don't know this. She seems well-meaning and has a job researching what she cares about instead of just whining on Twitter or getting disability checks because of PTSD due to sexism or whatever the fuck. She did make a laughable comparison of breast milk research to tomatoes but didn't call for white male genocide when she mentioned erectile dysfunction being more studied.
Yes, Target has NASA shirts for girls (awesome!). But I never indicated which Big Box Store I was in, bc I was making a broader social critique of gendered children’s clothing. But apparently, Target should do some serious back-patting on brand recognition with minimal visual clues. Along with sustained effort on these kinds of gendered shopping experiences. Once folks started talking about NASA shirts for girls there, I went back the next morning to find them and check on some other things. The NASA shirts in the “boys” sections were placed in three different locations (2/3 were prominently on the main aisles visible from 20+ feet away) and positioned at three different eye levels for typical heights in early childhood, middle childhood, and adulthood. For the girls' staff told me that they definitely had them in the store... somewhere. Turned out, the girls’ NASA shirts were in one location at the back of one section, facing a divider, away from the main path. Other folks have talked about how their local store has prominent NASA & science displays for girls. Sadly not so my store. Yet.
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And after sitting with all of this today- the accolades and the ire- I think tiny-scale, subversive, nonviolent, direct action of moving merchandise around to disrupt gender stereotypes is possible without creating more work or trouble for retail workers. I can look for clothing items off their hanger, off their rack, discarded on the ground, and fix them. As many items as the number of items I want to move to push back on gender stereotyping. Already did 5 for the 5 shirts I moved. This makes my actions “work load neutral” for the person working in that section, that shift. I will then return the next day to submit a comment card describing what I did so that the customer is held accountable for the movement of the merchandise, not the staff. Then there is paperwork that may make it the headquarters, and science t-shirts at little girl eye level.
She's harmless and is in the sad state of actually caring in a movement that's so much about complaining or arguing. Moving a few T-shirts is 99% more than what the staff at Jezebel do for feminism. Stick to making fun of them.
