Thursday, May 14, 2015

A Slam…

A lot can be said in headlines, it can set the tone of the article and even if the article is positive it can bias the whole article,
‘You Are You’: Photos of boy campers who dress like girls
SF Gate
By Rachel Howard
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

In 2007, photographer Lindsay Morris began attending a summer camp for families with “gender nonconforming” children — mostly boys who liked to dress up in girls’ clothes since, for complicated cultural reasons, girls who dress like boys are not nearly so ridiculed and ostracized. At the secluded camp, kids experiment freely with bright colors and makeup, and the weekend culminates with a joyous fashion show.
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But the camp is more than fun and games. All of the adults present have faced tremendous social pressure to deny their children’s personal expression, or coerce them toward gender stereotypes.

One of Morris’ chief rewards in capturing the camp antics has been watching the children mature and become their full selves. Some of the boys later identify as gay; some of them grow into heterosexual identities. One yearly camp goer transitioned from male to female, and her family asked Morris to photograph her bat mitzvah — to their knowledge the first time the Jewish rite of passage has been marked for a transgender teen.
It sound to me like the reporter has biases against trans kids, the photographers but the reporters says things like “boys who liked to dress up in girls’ clothes” and “healthy boys wearing lipstick and smiling,” not once did the reporter refer the children as girls. The book author sets a positive tone but the reporter seems to slam the books by using "boys dressed as girls."The headline set the negative tone of the article.

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