Gap Casting Call - Finalist Voting

[pancak]

Well, they narrowed down the 880,000-some entries to 20 kids, 5 per group. No sweeps for voting, but you can vote once a day until 12/21.

http://www.gap.com/castingcall

What a beautiful and talented bunch of kids! It was so hard to vote. I even thought (since I haven't heard of an OLSer's child being chosen), I'd pick a child from NJ...there were 3 in the 0-4 girls! So much for that idea.

Jovana's braces look fab on her, BTW...Congrats to all these kids; they all deserve to be Gap models!

:cheer3:

[secular]

Maybe I missed something but were there any blonde haired kids?

[jennem]

Maybe I missed something but were there any blonde haired kids?

I can't get into the site for some reason. And we didn't enter this year. But as the mom of a black-haired, dark-skinned daughter, I've realized that literally 80% of the child models, child actors, toy characters, dolls, princesses, etc. out there are blond or at least very fair Caucasian--while less than 15% of the American population is naturally blonde nowadays.

This is something that as a very fair redhead I NEVER noticed before my daughter came home and I started really looking. But our media is very skewed in a blonde/fair direction and it can wreak havoc on the self-image of our 85% darker kids. So maybe for once I will enjoy looking at a set of photo-contest finalists! Not that I dislike blondes--most of my family is blonde, including my husband and all my nieces and nephews, and I'm a redhead. I have no problem with 15% or so of the finalists being blonde, but having all blondes with a token minority or darker kid gets really wearing, and it happens A WHOLE LOT in these contests.

Maybe Gap was having an over-reaction rebound moment.

[secular]

I can't get into the site for some reason. And we didn't enter this year. But as the mom of a black-haired, dark-skinned daughter, I've realized that literally 80% of the child models, child actors, toy characters, dolls, princesses, etc. out there are blond or at least very fair Caucasian--while less than 15% of the American population is naturally blonde nowadays.

This is something that as a very fair redhead I NEVER noticed before my daughter came home and I started really looking. But our media is very skewed in a blonde/fair direction and it can wreak havoc on the self-image of our 85% darker kids. So maybe for once I will enjoy looking at a set of photo-contest finalists! Not that I dislike blondes--most of my family is blonde, including my husband and all my nieces and nephews, and I'm a redhead. I have no problem with 15% or so of the finalists being blonde, but having all blondes with a token minority or darker kid gets really wearing, and it happens A WHOLE LOT in these contests.

Maybe Gap was having an over-reaction rebound moment.


I think so.