Kaveri is the author of “Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development”.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Okay, so let me start here.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: and as the title suggests, it focuses on the all pervasive girlie-girl culture thatwho targets little girls.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Peggy Orenstein: this big.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: what the impact is.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: In terms of what does it do for your long term identify identity development.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Peggy Orenstein: Let me think about that for a second, but it was about -- oh it was about the difference between sexualization and sexuality --
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right. And when I talked to researchers and I'd be interested to know Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right, I mean I think again there isn't a whole lot of literature on these issues, but if you look at the literature on pornography, for instance, individuals
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: I think what it is doing is that it might have some implications down the road in terms of girls' views about intimacy, their expectations for relationships,
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: they forward messages, they copy and paste their instant messages, sync messages that they have with friends, they forward it on.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: online.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum. Peggy Orenstein: that if you don't point out -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Correct.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: or with their little -- Peggy Orenstein: with their text yeah -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: cell phone device next to them in their bed, how do you then know
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Messages.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right, absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: the teen at Rutgers who was sort of quasi-bullied I guess through his roommate's videotaping him.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: “It Gets Better”, thank you.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: you said to open up these new – these alternative possibilities.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: you think about gay youth who are African-American or Latino -- these individuals I think have even more options with technology.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: one of the, and the second chapter where you're talking about pink, what was it pink drills, no I'm just kidding, pink stuffs, pink blocks, and whatnot
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: And in fact I was telling you the 1950 Peter Pan movie in fact had little Michael in a pink jumper.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: And I -- Peggy Orenstein: Yeah, you wouldn't see that now.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right. Peggy Orenstein: all babies wore white, they wore white dresses -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: At this point.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Michael I think, yes.
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam,: there was so much going on about what the expectation is for girls, what the mandate is for girls about what might happen if you don't follow that
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Absolutely.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: It really is.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum. Peggy Orenstein: And I'm like not a tiger mom I'm like a -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Peggy Orenstein: dog on four roller skates mom, I think is what I am.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum. Peggy Orenstein: of preschooler's brains and the ways that the inborn differences -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Um-hum.