Back To School 2010 – Girls Can’t What? Review and Giveaway – ends 8/31

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My niece Rebecca is AWESOME!!! She is only 10, but way more wise and mature beyond her years. She is an amazing athlete. She plays soccer, she’s on the all star basketball team and she is a member of the Woodside One Wheelers, which are a preforming Circus arts group. She juggles and rides a unicycle!

Now there are certain members of my extended family that insist that either girls sports are a waste of time or are a joke. I think they should shove it honestly, because girls can do whatever they want and be just as good as their male counterparts!

Girls Can’t WHAT? is a company that share my views on gender equality. They sell t-shirts, tote bags, hats, you name it. With pictures of girls doing all sorts of things such as playing basketball, playing the drums, 4 wheeling etc.

I wanted to show my support for Rebecca, so Girls can’t WHAT sent me a shirt that I felt was very appropriate:

Here is a little more information on the Girls Can’t WHAT? company:

Have you ever been told you can’t because you’re a girl? Gretchen Cawthon has and she has turned the phrase “Girls Can’t WHAT?” into a mantra for women who break through gender barriers.  She’s formed a community whose primary purpose is to help women achieve their dreams and that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Growing up in a neighborhood of all boys, Gretchen learned to throw a football and race BMX bikes. She played Little League baseball every summer and in the 6th grade was one of two girls to make the boys basketball team. During high school she was involved in a serious car accident and doctors questioned whether she would ever walk again. Two weeks after having her vertebrae fused back together she was walking unassisted. Continuing to break gender stereotypes, Gretchen’s first year of college was also a challenging experience as the only female percussion major in a field dominated by guys.

If anyone knows what it’s like to be told you can’t do something because you’re a girl, it’s her.

These childhood experiences prompted Gretchen to create the Girls Can’t WHAT? website in 2005. It is here she shares personal experiences along with amazing stories and interviews from some truly inspirational women. Together, their purpose is to encourage women to pursue their dreams no matter what roadblocks they may encounter.

Win It: One reader will win a prize pack consisting of  a t-shirt, tote bag and magnet with any design on each item
in any color.

To Enter: Visit Girls Can’t WHAT? and tell me your favorite design!

Extra Entries:

1: Follow me on Google Connect and comment

2: Subscribe by email and comment.

3: Follow Musing Mainiac on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway and comment with the Tweet link. You may do this once daily.

4: Like Musing Mainiac on Facebook.

5: Subscribe to Musing Mainiac’s  RSS feed.

6: Follow Girls Can’t WHAT? on Twitter.

7: Follow Girls Can’t WHAT? on Facebook.

8: Sign up for the Girls Can’t WHAT? newsletter. ( The blue box on the top of the web site.)

And now for the fine print:

Open to anyone in the USA , 18 and over.

Giveaway closes at August 31st at 12:00pm EST. I will randomly select one winner shortly after and notify them by email. The Winner will have 48 hours to contact me with their mailing address.

Although I did receive the product to review, I was in no other way compensated for this post. All opinions are purely my own.

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About Beth

Beth Larrabee is a stay at home mom of 3 wonderful children and is married to her wonderful husband Scot. She comes from a long line of chefs and loves all things food related.

Comments

  1. The Light Chef Girl Apron appeals to me.

  2. I like the light rule the world girl design. They are so cute! I have been told I can’t do many things growing up, simply because I am a girl. I’ve even been told I can’t ride a bike! (Which I could.) I have played basketball, softball and hockey. So I showed them all. Now I have 3 nieces, and I never want to hear the word “can’t” because they’re girls! I will always support their ambitions, because any girl can do what they want! Nice give-away.

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  3. ha! i tell my daughter to kick butt and take names…i was a tomboy, to say the least, and i did what they told me i couldn’t BECAUSE they told me i couldn’t….lol, now i have a very girly girl! she, however, likes the biker design :)

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  8. Nicole C. says:

    My favorite is the Veterinarian design.

  9. Nicole C. says:

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  10. we like the cowgirl!

  11. Christine says:

    like the light rule the world girl design

  12. biker design!

  13. Love the Military ones. My husband is retired military (30 years) and my daughter is in the Army now serving in Korea!

  14. Larisa Strode says:

    My favorite is the ice hockey one. It even looks like my daughter. I played ice hockey in high school and now my daughter plays. She is 8. She was one of 2 girls in her age group last season. Other moms frequently tell her how cool they think it is that she plays, and they wish they had the courage to get out there and play with all those boys. Makes a mom proud!

  15. I like the K9 officer design.

  16. My daughter is all about the cowgirl design!

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  20. Kristi C
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    My favorite is Rule the World.

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  22. I like Girls Can’t What? – Wrestle

  23. Very cute concept! My daughter LOVES playing basketball so we would go with the Light Green Basketball design!

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  30. alicia campos says:

    My favorite design is “Rule the world” :)

  31. I choose Light Doctor. Thanks!

  32. I would pick the Hunting for my mom!

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  34. I’m an email subscriber

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  35. I like the military one.
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  36. I love the doctor design…my daughter had a liver transplant..her surgeon was a woman, her “liver” dr is a woman and head of the dept, her transplant coordinator is a woman…Girls Can Save the World! They certainly saved mine!

    Ana
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  37. Abhishek Duggal says:

    Girls Can’t Be Lifeguards

  38. Love the skateboard! My daughter would rock that :)

  39. Sarah Lewis says:

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  40. I like the Race Car Driver design.

  41. following you on google connect

  42. subscribed via email

  43. What a great site! I love the Rule the world one!

  44. LEANNE THELE says:

    my 10 year old would love the basketball one also in any color except pink lol

  45. Vicki Wurgler says:

    I like the Bass Guitar design

  46. My favorite is the girl with the guitar =) hopehelvete@yahoo.com

  47. Darrell Bennett says:

    Thanks

  48. Miss Heidi says:

    I like the Gamer one. Thanks.

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  49. I’d love to win the Basketball one for my niece!

    Thanks!

  50. I love the “girls can’t what” truck driver hats…awesome!

  51. Liked Girls Can’t What on FB.

  52. Subscribed to musingmainiac via email

  53. Liked Musing Maniac on FB.

  54. I am really loving the “Girls Can’t What?” Golf
    Shirt?
    Thanks, Cindi

  55. I follow you publicly via Google Friend
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  56. I am an email subscriber of yours!
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  59. My favorite is the ATV. My little girl is total tomboy and loves to ride atv’s!

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  64. I like the soccer one

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  65. GFC follower- Tara V

  66. I follow GirlsCantWhat via Twitter…
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  67. I “Like” Girls Can’t What on Facebook!!!!!
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  68. I signed up for the Girls Can’t What Newsletter.
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  69. I follow you on gfc (cassie Dow)

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  70. Teresa Eastridge says:

    I like the girls can’t what? Runner

  71. Elizabeth says:

    I love the Girls Can’t What – Gymnastics t-shirt.

    Thank you for this giveaway:)

  72. Angela R. says:

    My favorite is the hunting!

  73. Angela R. says:

    I follow on Google.

  74. Angela R. says:

    I subscribe to your emails.

  75. I like the basketball one for my daughter!
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  81. I Follow Girls Can’t WHAT? on Twitter. *sleatham1*
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  84. Chelsei Ryan says:

    My favorite design is the Rule the World one
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  85. Chelsei Ryan says:

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  88. Chelsei Ryan says:

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  89. Melissa B. says:

    I like the Light Saxophone design.

  90. i like the “Four Wheeling” design!! :)

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  93. like you on FB :)

  94. Follow Girls Can’t WHAT? on FB :)

  95. Signed up for the Girls Can’t WHAT? newsletter :)

  96. I like the girls can’t what? where shes standing on the earth and it says rule the world.

  97. i follow u via GFC

  98. I like the Rule the World design.

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  99. i subscribe via email

  100. i like u on FB

  101. I like girls cant what on FB

  102. I like the Army or the girl on the tractor shirts.

  103. my daughter would love the soccer design

  104. We like the “Girl’s Can’t What?” soccer girl in the blue.. on a t-shirt! =)

  105. Liked “Girl’s Can’t WHAT?” on facebook

  106. my favorite design is the Astronaut!

  107. Liked Musing Mainiac on facebook

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  117. gina cooper says:

    I love the “Rule the world”

  118. I’ll have to decided later – it’s a toss up between the snowboarding and surfing.
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  121. I like the Volleyball Team Blue designs.

  122. ReggieMann says:

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  126. I like the fishing design.

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  128. Like you on facebook.
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  132. tina reynolds says:

    I really liked the bag in Logo Head – Light

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  137. I love the bass guitar design! Thanks for the chance!

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  138. Veronica Garrett says:

    Farmer is my favorite design.

  139. Navy Veteran! Even though the colors are all wrong.

  140. GFC follower.

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  142. I follow Girls Can’t What? on Twitter @RazzMyBerry.

  143. kathy pease says:

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  150. Gloria Mckellar says:

    I like the “Rule the World” shirt for girls.

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  158. I would get the Girls can’t Soccer for nieces.

  159. I love the scientist design.

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  166. I like the scientist design

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  168. Annette E says:

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  172. I like the baseball design

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