First

Is it a girl?

Is it a boy?

It's a girl!

It's a boy!

She's going to need a pink dress

He's going to need a blue truck

She's going to need to be pretty [wolf whistle]

He's going to need to be strong [struck bell]

She's going to need to be delicate

He's going to need to be athletic [crowd roar]

She can't be too smart

He can't act like a girl

She'll need to know her place

and he better not cry

These are the

limiting narratives

we feed our children

about what it is to be a woman

and what it is to be a man

and it DOESN'T

have a happy ending

♫ [dramatic strings] ♫

Not only are girls seen as objects by other people,

they learn to see themselves as objects.

There's still so much work that

has to happen with girls

about identity and about the emphasis placed on beauty and body image.

But for boys, there's been no similar kinds of movement at all.

Boys are still lead to believe that power is associated with domination.

[Different Male] We need to redefine strength in men,

not as the power over other people but as

forces for justice, and justice means

equality and fairness and working against poverty,

and working against, you know, inequality and violence, that's strength.

We're creating new leaders,

and they're going to not look like how they always did.

That is the true reflection of this country and of this world.

It's time to write the story

It's time to REwrite the story

to widen the spectrum of representation

to make the media and our larger culture

more inclusive for our children

for ALL

For all of us

The Representation Project is a

movement

that awakens conciousness

changes behaviour

and ultimately

and ultimately

transforms culture

so EVERYONE! regardless of

GENDER

RACE

CLASS

AGE

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

CIRCUMSTANCE

can fulfill their potential

Take the pledge today

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