{"id":1752,"date":"2009-10-20T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2009-10-20T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T15:39:57","slug":"body-language-smart-girls-at-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/10\/20\/body-language-smart-girls-at-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"BODY LANGUAGE: Smart Girls at the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

My current favorite thing on the internet is the show Smart Girls at the Party<\/em>, created by Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker, and Amy Miles.\u00c2\u00a0 This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a new show\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been online since late 2008\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just now finding out about it.\u00c2\u00a0 The show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission statement is to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153celebrate extraordinary individuals who are changing the world by being themselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 And the people they celebrate are girls.<\/p>\n

The eight episodes that make up the first season feature girls who dance, do yoga, and have rock bands, girls who write stories and garden, and girls who are sisters.\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite episode<\/a> features Ruby, who is a feminist.<\/p>\n

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\nRuby is adorably goofy.\u00c2\u00a0 She giggles, scratches her nose, draws a picture called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Make Your Mind Crazy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and apparently can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t skateboard at all.\u00c2\u00a0 She enthusiastically explains feminism and sings a song she wrote\u00e2\u20ac\u201dshe is loaded with self-confidence and extraversion.\u00c2\u00a0 But she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the only kind of girl featured on the show.\u00c2\u00a0 Eleven-year-old Valentine is quiet and thoughtful as she explains her passion for community gardening.\u00c2\u00a0 Ten-year-old Kenaudra seems almost shy as she describes her praise dancing, but she leads the adult women in a dance.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise that this great idea has come from Amy Poehler, who is one of my favorite famous feminists.\u00c2\u00a0 In an interview with BUST <\/em>magazine in 2006, she was talking about media representations of girls and women, and she said\u00e2\u20ac\u201damong other fabulous things\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m over the weird, exhausted girl.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m over the girl that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tired and freezing and hungry.\u00c2\u00a0 I like bossy girls, I always have.\u00c2\u00a0 I like people filled with life.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m over this weird media thing with all this, like, hollow-eyed, empty, party crap.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 So she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s created a show that highlights girls who are filled with life.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see that Poehler and her co-hosts, Walker and Miles, work hard to create a comfortable atmosphere for the girls so that they can express all their incredible funkiness.<\/p>\n

These are amazing girls, but not because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re, for instance, award-winning dancers or published writers.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not a show that seeks out The Most Amazing Girls in some competitive way.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, Poehler interviews ordinary girls and through the interviews lets the girls reveal their thoughts, interests, and talents.\u00c2\u00a0 As a viewer, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re struck by how cool these girls are\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not in a way that makes them out of reach.\u00c2\u00a0 This is part of what makes the show special.\u00c2\u00a0 Watching it, I think, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know girls like that!\u00c2\u00a0 They should be on the show!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 And I hope that girls who watch it might think, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can do that!\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like me!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inviting rather than distancing.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creating a sense of community and a sense of possibility, as well as validating girls for the ordinary things that make them special.<\/p>\n

The show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website has a casting call for season 2<\/a>, so if you know a girl who is changing the world by being herself, encourage her to submit her information to Smart Girls at the Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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