Vamanos!

Ahh, Dora the Explorer, what an adorable rough and tumble, ready to go girl looking for adventure! Too bad her show didn't really take off until her cousin Diego showed up. Why is that? Why do we as a society feel the need to fixate on male characters and make them the focus of everything. Women hardly ever play a main character in a children's show. Maybe this is just because of our indoctrinated sense of male = good, female = bad. So, we try to instill this in children as soon as possible. Girl characters = weak, male characters = strong. As parents, we may buy more male character toys for boys, female character toys for girls, but we still encourage all kids to watch male centered shows, and we rarely show interest ourselves for shows with strong female characters. Perhaps we can work on this, or at least try to encourage kids toward more gender equal tv viewing.