Wow that is incredibly interesting. I wonder why it doesn't work in America. The young pretty girls with a career, seem to be idolized and supported by younger girls rather than men. And the boy groups making a career out of being attractive to girls, are also supported by almost entirely girls.

I don't think a convincing argument can be made for the immense skill it requires to maintain her position. And her position, is to be famous for being famous. You can say that not everyone has what it takes to do it, or to do it for long for whatever reason, could be looks or a poor supporting cast, but I don't think…

Anybody can sing, to be a singer requires skill and practice. This is the first I'm hearing of her producing so let me know if that's where she's making her living. Acting also requires skill and practice. If people believed her to have skill at singing, acting, producing, even managing, we wouldn't be having this…

I've been wondering so much about that lately. Are the idols in japan intended to be for men and boys? Both boys and girls?

I hear you, but when it comes to letting kids watch what they want, even if you talk to them about certain things, the child might simply internalize these things anyway, but know that they shouldn't have. So they'll grow up with certain feelings that they know to be incorrect, because even a good discussion couldn't…

Thank you as well! And I understand how the phrasing could bother you. I think on some level people might hear that and think of parents who simply don't let their children pursue their own interests, rather than parents who don't want their children to be influenced by certain things. I think there are some parents…

Some guy gets paid tens of millions of dollars to catch a ball better than tens of millions of other guys that wanted his job. You say TV star but is she an actor? You say records music but is she a singer? A writer? A producer?

I've frequently been given the impression that it's more about shielding women from any criticism, and maintaining the idea of a culture that works against them. This is still odd though, because people criticizing kim kardashian for not having any skills or for not contributing, is basically the opposite of the…

Good luck to you. And I think being raised to want more than to be famous for being famous, and hopefully valuing more about themselves than their looks, is something they and the people they meet will be grateful for. A lot, if not most girls don't get that when they're growing up.

Absolutely true, and I think those are necessary bigger conversations for this person to have with their daughters, but I think trying to avoid having them looking up to women like her isn't necessarily wasted effort either. MaskedGuest likely hopes they'll look up to other women instead. And it's definitely not a…

I'm less concerned with them implying she's a victim of our sexist culture(when she's really a huge beneficiary of a culture that values women primarily by their looks and applies less importance to other things), and more concerned with the idea that doing nothing for a living is feminine culture and lifestyle???

To be fair, parents not letting their kids take in ideas or notions they don't agree with is what parents are suppose to do. If you don't like something, for fear of how it will influence your kids, then you shouldn't let your kids play or watch. Better than blaming other people.

Yeah I was thinking it was a branding thing. I wonder if we'll see the male equivalent of a celebrity rpg.

Everyone likes to assert that Kardashian is "famous for being famous." But as Samantha Allen writes over at The Daily Dot, "It's not that Kardashian doesn't work; it's that her work is not recognized as legitimate within a sexist world that sees feminine culture and lifestyle as frivolous pursuits undeserving of any…

Is there anything in this article that explains why this game that's supposedly vapid and about being a celebrity for no reason, appeals so strongly to girls and women and not boys? Why's this supposedly a female fantasy? I mean does it have something to do with why girls use social networks more? Or is that for a…

No. It literally has more cheaper games, and more games that were inexpensive to develop. The 3ds library as a whole is more expensive. The 3ds isn't cheaper to develop for. It depends on the game you make, and the vita has far more low priced games.

No plenty of people are still want just AAA exclusives and are mad that they never got enough, but the vita was never going to get those. That's not even where it's potential and strengths lay at this point.

Before anyone posts that awful extra credits video, the vita didn't fail because it was too powerful.

Sony aimed at the wrong consumers. It was never going to get the necessary big exclusives. Too many options for third parties these days. And handhelds aren't for the traditional console audience. Sony's mistake is not recognizing that in the beginning and still failing to recognize that for the most part, and…

"but when that results in longer development cycles and more expensive software "