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Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 10:54:22 GMT
Girl Summer inspired supplement companies beauty brands and influencers to hop on the trend train. Today online marketers are sharing roundups of essential girl dinner toolkits with highpriced charcuterie boards and aprons. Confirmation bias for better or worse Yet for as savvy as these hashtags are there may be an unintended downside for wrapping trends in feminised branding. Experts maintain that girl trends can create prescriptive gender dynamics out of thin air. Gendered labels may be catchy but theyre restricting says Madan. Men can also be interested in lazy jobs and some women might not appreciate their careers being labelled Mobile App Development Service lazy or their dinners as exclusively girl territory. It is easy for these labels to feel patronising especially since they may inadvertently minimise the complexity of womens experiences or undermine their autonomy a shared ritual or join a tribe as part of a viral trend even temporarily. is hard to resist Shilpa Madan Isabel Barrow the director of financial planning at USbased investment company Edelman Financial Engines points to the girl math trend as particularly problematic. As a financial planner I dont think that this is a male or female thing. Calling it girl math is trying to say that women are more susceptible to making bad financial decisions than men which I dont find to be the case. Barrow also believes adding girl to a trends nomenclature feels derisive.
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