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  • The ever-earlier sexualization of girl-children, meanwhile, is raising alarm across the political spectrum.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Not until our girl-children cease from playing with dolls and from looking at their own enticingness in mirrors, will woman ever be otherwise than what she has always been: first, the mother, second, the mate of man.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Nowhere is this squealing louder than Japan, where digital culture has evolved into an elaborate fantasy universe of pupil-less girl-children, lithe pubescent boys, anthropomorphised mammals, and, in fact, any object on which you can glue saucer-like, heavily-lashed eyes.

    Claire Gordon: The Internet is Awwwwww! 2010

  • I want that for my daughter, my niece, and girl-children current and unborn.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Steven Barnes 2010

  • I want that for my daughter, my niece, and girl-children current and unborn.

    "Iron Man 2" (2010) Steven Barnes 2010

  • Nowhere is this squealing louder than Japan, where digital culture has evolved into an elaborate fantasy universe of pupil-less girl-children, lithe pubescent boys, anthropomorphised mammals, and, in fact, any object on which you can glue saucer-like, heavily-lashed eyes.

    Claire Gordon: The Internet is Awwwwww! 2010

  • I want that for my daughter, my niece, and girl-children current and unborn.

    "Iron Man 2" (2010) Steven Barnes 2010

  • They were bundled up like spider food, but they reminded me of naughty Victorian girl-children: pretty, dainty, and malevolent, like the illustration of the The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf in a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, who had ended up chained down in Hell covered with spiders and snakes and other creepy-crawlies, oh my.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • They were bundled up like spider food, but they reminded me of naughty Victorian girl-children: pretty, dainty, and malevolent, like the illustration of the The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf in a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, who had ended up chained down in Hell covered with spiders and snakes and other creepy-crawlies, oh my.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • That is probably as much a service to humanity as raising strong girl-children.

    Gender Part 1: Boys Don't Cry JLK 2009

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