HW 17: “Is It Every Little Girl’s Dream To Babysit? One Video Thinks So”

I looked at two different blogs, one was “Okay, That's It Ladies: Time To Buy A Playstation 3” which can be found at http://jezebel.com/gossip/dick-in-an-xbox/okay-thats-it-ladies-time-to-buy-a-playstation-3-301659.php and the other one was “Is It Every Little Girl's Dream To Babysit? One Video Game Company Thinks So” at http://jezebel.com/gossip/low-score/is-it-every-little-girls-dream-to-babysit-one-video-game-company-thinks-so-306751.php. What I found so interesting about these two blogs was that they corresponded with each other about a topic I thought was pretty rare. Both blogs discussed how girls are labeled as people who only like to shop, gossip, and are concerned about how they look but in reality girls like things that boys do too. In this particular case they discuss video games, and how girls like to play as much as boys do and how games are even becoming focused on girls more and more. ”6-14 year old females, to whom Ubisoft is marketing babysitting, fashion design and figure skating games: Maybe some of them will be pleased with these choices, but aren't you willing to bet that some of them would also like games where you kickbox, DJ, or blow something up?” This quote goes to show that people are definitely looking at girls from a different viewpoint. The reason I thought these blogs were so interesting was because it was a topic that I had not really heard much about and I thought it was good that people are breaking away from the stereotypical image of what a teenager girl is like.