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Re: Men vs. Women
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Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:43:35 GMT
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<mucho snippo>
I do find your wife's research very interesting, but I would come to a very
different conclusion. I have always fallen on the nature side of the
nature/nurture arguement. I would argue that your wife's findings indicate
what boys and girls visually prefer, not an indication of early sexist
programming.
> I'm NOT saying that greeting cards make boy kids into scientists and lego
> builders and girls into stay-at-home moms. What I AM saying is that it is
> indicative of similiar symptoms that allude to the continued gendered education
> in our country. Society as whole puts enormous pressure on both girls and boys
> to behave in certain ways and tends to exclude those that don't follow the
> norm. Since feminism in the 1970's, things have change a little, but barely
> noticable at all.
And that is one of the biggest evidences of what I am saying. The feminists
and gender neutral movement has pushed hard the idea of not putting stigma
on items as inherrently one gender or another. I think that no matter how
hard you try you will have great difficulty convincing even the youngest boy
that Barbie is better than G.I. Joe. My son likes to occasionally play with
dolls, but eventually they get tossed against the wall head first. Why are
we so afraid to consider that maybe boys and girls are just different in
ways other than the obvious.
I do not mean to completely exclude comercialism from the arguement, as I
have seen kids go insane over some stupid Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh card that a
magazine says is worth $100. However, if tomorrow Matel decided to make a
G.I. Jane doll and try to pull market share from their Barbie line, they
would be in for dire failure.
Scott
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| Something important, even if it does seem off topic: My wife did a study of children's greeting cards. She found that girl's cards emphasized beauty/prettiness, being sweet and nice, and used pastel colors like pink and other light colors. boy's (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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