In the article “Hers;The Smurfette Principle,” author Katha Pollitt writes about how sexism in television are affecting children. She starts off by explaining how network cartoons or puppets star some sort of a female character as a lead. Pollitt provides a personal example when she describes how her daughter is being exposed to gender stereotypes. She describes The Smurfette Principle which is how a group of male characters are accepted by a single female character. Children’s shows depict the message that “Boys define the group, its story, and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys”(Pollitt). This could also be seen in literature. Even though there are more books than shows that have a girl as a lead character, there are
