Week 5 response to Tamica's post

It’s tough when you realize the education a younger generation of women may be receiving from their own mothers. This is so sad! We recognize discrimination in the media, throughout popular culture, and can try to raise awareness against it. However, what is going on within homes between parents and daughters is so influential to the children’s sense of self. I would have been just as shocked and angry at this, yet I feel there is no real solution. Some parents are going to continue to pass these types of expectations or bias views of femininity onto their children, no matter how much education and positive reinforcement there may be in the world to combat it. However, there’s always hope. My parents enforced a very strict gender ideology of what is expected of their two daughters in being feminine and attractive. Yet I don’t feel I try to uphold their standards and will not continue the cycle on to my future children. Furthermore, I am shocked there is not more public condemnation of this "Busty Barbie!"