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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...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 it to a celebrity-obsessed culture that undermines adult women by glorifying glamour figures like Paris Hilton while neglecting those women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Pretty in Pink: Are Girls' Toys Too Girly? | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

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