5 Reasons I’m Comfortable Calling Tavi Gevinson A ‘Role Model’ For Girls
If you went by our mainstream media’s script, you’d either have to bang an older man or be an underage Internet porn star to get any press as a young girl. Teen Google winners who develop breast cancer detectors sadly are far and few between, as well as girls who choose to debate political issues publicly. Although part of the problem is definitely what our media chooses to recognize girls for — such as “insatiable” sexuality — I’m going to go a step further and say that we don’t have enough young girls visibly profiting off their perception, their smarts, and their voice.
Enter Tavi Gevinson, “the 16-year-old fashion blogger turned online impresario,” according to The New York Times, who is currently on a 16-city tour promoting her website Rookie. The editor-in-chief may resist the word “role model” — or perhaps just for her website — as she once said. But over the past five years, since Tavi first appeared in the interwebs as a stylish 11-year-old, she has accrued quite a few attributes that make her one to watch in the very painful “Who Can My Daughter Look up To?” conversation.
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(photo: stylerookie.com)