My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.