Karate/Sissy Ad Update: A Teachable Moment in Stereotypes, Gender Roles, & Shaming
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
August 16, 2010 5:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/karatesissy_ad_update_a_teachable_moment_in_stereo.php 🔗


The print ads for a South Florida Karate School featuring young boys doing stereotypically "feminine things" like wearing their mother's high heels or playing with make-up have been making their way around the internet this past week and causing lots of debate and anger.  The ads seem to use gay panic and gender shaming  to say that the cure for this "shocking" behavior and the best way to "man up" your obviously queer kid is to take karate classes to "straighten them out."

A rather positve outcome really.

If the karate school goes through with this re-evaluation I would suggest that the outcome has been worth the trial.

This ad is illogical cause high heels make a very powerful weapon for self-defence. I wouldn't like anyone with high-heels to kick my ... oh ->-bleeped-<-, I forgot, I don't have them.