{"id":122,"date":"2006-08-22T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/hello-kitty-has-something-to-say\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T04:48:26","slug":"hello-kitty-has-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/hello-kitty-has-something-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty has something to say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Kitty has something to say &#8211; I&#8217;m sure she does &#8211; we all do.  She&#8217;s a busy kitty, getting around, all over back packs, pencil cases, running shoes, t-shirts, pajamas, carpets, toothbrushes&#8230; I know lots of little girls (and one professor) who think Hello Kitty is great and own HK gear, but what message are they picking up from this quiet puss with no mouth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is Hello Kitty&#8217;s mouth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The message here is loud and clear (unlike HK&#8217;s voice):  don&#8217;t just be quiet and passive, be Silent.  You have nothing to say &#8211; you are forbidden from speaking.  Stop thinking and feeling too.<\/p>\n<p>I propose an artistic endeavour where people who are tired of women being told to stay out of the way and keep quiet put the mouth back on Hello Kitty.  I invite you to &#8220;Take Back the Mouth&#8221;.  Leave a comment with a link to where we can find your creations. <\/p>\n<p>I am kitty cat &#8211; hear me roar!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/images\/hk-tbtmouth.gif\" alt=\"hello kitty image with mouths drawn on\"\/><\/p>\n<div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ga1.js\"> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Kitty has something to say &#8211; I&#8217;m sure she does &#8211; we all do. She&#8217;s a busy kitty, getting around, all over back packs, pencil cases, running shoes, t-shirts, pajamas, carpets, toothbrushes&#8230; I know lots of little girls (and one professor) who think Hello Kitty is great and own HK gear, but what message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}