I’m working on my book of scripts and have included a few about the sexualization of girls. I ended up re-reading the awesome report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls and you should read it too.
That headline up there? That’s just some of the impact when girls internalize sexualization – valuing themselves for their sexual appeal and how they look rather than who they are.
Here are a couple of the scripts to test out on your girls AND your boys. You’ll have to wait for the book for more!
When girls focus too much on how they look, the clothes they wear and if they are “sexy” it’s bad for them. “What they are” becomes more important than “who they are.” It’s like they are an object, like a chair or a tree, rather than a person.
Girls are not things, and are valuable because they are smart, kind, funny, friendly, capable and kind. How would you feel if people made every decision about you based on your shoes or your t-shirt and that’s what you thought made you important: your clothes.
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