Word: fashionization
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...Shopaholic, Soon-to-be-Supermodel." Even old classics now offer girls' versions, such as an all-pink Monopoly game in which the houses and hotels have been replaced by boutiques and malls, and a "Designer's Edition" Scrabble that has letters on the front of the box spelling out fashion. It wasn't always this way. A couple of decades ago, children's clothing mostly came in primary colors and princesses were confined to the occasional film or Halloween costume. But as marketing to children has burgeoned into a multibillion-dollar industry, and our consumerist ethos has saddled kids with...
...There are serious ramifications to all this marketing, the Moores say. The tidal wave of pink toys and clothes suggests there's only one way to be a girl - pretty, princessy and fashion-minded. And this segues disturbingly quickly into often sexualized images of tween girls a few years older, says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Colby College in Maine and co-author of the book Packaging Girlhood. The not-so-subtle pressures of this marketing can damage self-esteem and feed worries about body image and appearance later in life, the sisters say. They also link...
...third and final video, "Gift Exchange," shows Harvard and Brown exchanging gifts. In true Harvard fashion, Harvard gives Brown a framed picture of himself, and Brown retaliates by giving Harvard a t-shirt reading, "Harvard. Because not everyone can get into Brown." Cute. Also, we've never heard that one before...
...Discussion of such nightmare scenarios may have gone out of fashion with the end of the Cold War, but the fact that Washington and Moscow maintain thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert explains why even the modest successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that was agreed on last week proved so elusive. And it also serves as a reminder of how dauntingly difficult it will be to achieve cuts deep enough to remove what President John F. Kennedy once called "Damocles' sword" hanging over humanity. (See pictures of President Obama in Russia...
...Contrary to popular opinion, fashion is not dead at Harvard. I think that's a perception that needs to be challenged. Besides Eleganza, there are other great fashion organizations on campus: Identities, Project East, and the Vestis Council. There are a lot of different ways to get involved. Like any personal hobby, fashion requires initiative to pursue. At Harvard, it's a little harder to pursue fashion instead of something more traditional. But, at the same time, there are outlets for it, and they're not too hard to find...