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This YouTube video ties into the discussion about discrimination and post-racial america. By watching this video it gives an amazing insight from the point of view of the youth and how gay marriage is perceived today. It would have been great to find a similar interview with children of the same age from 30 years ago and compare the opinions, just to see how perspectives have changed over the past decades. But what i found most intriguing is that some of the kids reactions where of confusion but when they were asked why they thought gay marriage was weird or 'crazy' they didn't actually know why. Is this because they don't understand what is going on, or is it because they actually think it weird? 

Since we touched up on it a little in class, I wanted to share with you all this article about the Bratz dolls and how some parents think they're too sexy for their children. There is an argument from the company saying that it's only the adults that see "sex" but the children do not, what do you guys think?

I used to have loads of Bratz dolls when I was younger and I loved playing with them and dressing them up. I totally aggree with the statement in the article that 'Adults see sex in everything, but kids don't' as someone who had these dolls as a child it never crossed my mind these were oversexulaized, I wouldn't have even known what that meant!. I would make the comparisson to Barbies and comment that the parents who critize these dolls may have had Barbies when they were children.

This music video of Katy Perry with Elmo relates to the Gayle Rubin reading because the reaction to it is a clear example of the fear associated with showing children "too sexual" images. Because the video received so much backlash from adults and parents calling Katy Perry's outfit too revealing for children, Sesame Street opted not to air it.

I found this video kind of creepy actually, and it's not because I'm concerned that Katy Perry is "too sexual," but rather because with her chasing Elmo around, combined with the lyrics, it seems kind of predatory. But this is an excellent example of the cultural drive to keep sexuality away from kids.