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We exist. That may sound simple, but too often when someone says they are asexual, the first response from others is to deny or question it, it also sends the message that there is something wrong with us. I do not need to be fixed or cured, I am asexual and that's OK. – Heather Runyan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is a permanent part of who I am, and I'm proud and confident about it. she understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself. – Sandra Mellott	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If we rely only on intervention, we miss the mark, prevention is what we need, and this must be a systemic approach. – Executive Director Ulester Douglas	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's almost like a little competition for the number of likes, i think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle. – Diana Graber	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle. – Diana Graber	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's content by kids, but it's really meant to address topics of interest to their parents in many cases, the mission component is focused on teaching them digital literacy and citizenship while also allowing them to play with digital storytelling. – Samantha Skey	Found on CNN 9 years ago
And I found out that I am kind of neurotic about some things, for example, when I text someone and I think that I might have made them upset because they didn't reply right away, I automatically assume that they got mad at me. – Samantha Skey	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Mainstream media is portraying girls at younger ages who are mimicking the worst of obnoxious, stereotypical girl behavior ... rolling eyes, moving the hips around, being catty, so what girls are getting is that by 8 or 9, this is sort of a 'normal' way to act. – Rosalind Wiseman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We talk about role modeling but very rarely do adults look at their own behavior and say 'What am I doing?'. – Rosalind Wiseman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another. – Michelle Anthony	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations. – Michelle Anthony	Found on CNN 9 years ago
With girls, the more they watched, the more likely they were to perpetuate these behaviors so there's something about the nature of this type of behavior that girls feel comfortable perpetuating, i've argued, and many others have argued, that it's really about socialization, that as a culture, we tend to condone physical aggression with boys, and say, 'Oh that's just the way boys are' but with girls, we tell them not to do that because that's not what girls do. – Nicole Martins	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Girls have essentially been taught at a young age to be sneaky about it and this is what we are seeing in the shows that we are watching. – Nicole Martins	Found on CNN 9 years ago

We exist. That may sound simple, but too often when someone says they are asexual, the first response from others is to deny or question it, it also sends the message that there is something wrong with us. I do not need to be fixed or cured, I am asexual and that's OK.

– Heather Runyan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is a permanent part of who I am, and I'm proud and confident about it. she understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself.

– Sandra Mellott

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If we rely only on intervention, we miss the mark, prevention is what we need, and this must be a systemic approach.

– Executive Director Ulester Douglas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's almost like a little competition for the number of likes, i think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle.

– Diana Graber

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle.

– Diana Graber

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's content by kids, but it's really meant to address topics of interest to their parents in many cases, the mission component is focused on teaching them digital literacy and citizenship while also allowing them to play with digital storytelling.

– Samantha Skey

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And I found out that I am kind of neurotic about some things, for example, when I text someone and I think that I might have made them upset because they didn't reply right away, I automatically assume that they got mad at me.

– Samantha Skey

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Mainstream media is portraying girls at younger ages who are mimicking the worst of obnoxious, stereotypical girl behavior ... rolling eyes, moving the hips around, being catty, so what girls are getting is that by 8 or 9, this is sort of a 'normal' way to act.

– Rosalind Wiseman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We talk about role modeling but very rarely do adults look at their own behavior and say 'What am I doing?'.

– Rosalind Wiseman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another.

– Michelle Anthony

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations.

– Michelle Anthony

Found on CNN
9 years ago

With girls, the more they watched, the more likely they were to perpetuate these behaviors so there's something about the nature of this type of behavior that girls feel comfortable perpetuating, i've argued, and many others have argued, that it's really about socialization, that as a culture, we tend to condone physical aggression with boys, and say, 'Oh that's just the way boys are' but with girls, we tell them not to do that because that's not what girls do.

– Nicole Martins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Girls have essentially been taught at a young age to be sneaky about it and this is what we are seeing in the shows that we are watching.

– Nicole Martins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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