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textualdeviance) wrote2005-04-27 02:16 am
textualdeviance) wrote2005-04-27 02:16 am
hmm
Random ponderation..
I think what it is I hate so much about extremes of gender roles is that they're so damned immature. The people who embody them seem to be living out the pink aisle and the war aisle at Toys R Us. The women are all playing dress-up and mommy and the men are all pretending to be GI Joe. Apparently no one wants to actually grow up and be a real adult with real maturity and responsibility.
Although maybe it's a self-fulfilling thing. We give our kids all these toys that reinforce the idea that all women do all day is clean, care for babies and make themselves pretty little objects for men, and that all men do all day is try to "win" some competition or other, preferably by the use of violence or other physical domination. The world of actual, complex, responsible adults is not represented in most children's toys. So unless a kid gets the message some other way about what being an adult entails, they never learn that there's more to life than makeup and automatic weapons.
I think what it is I hate so much about extremes of gender roles is that they're so damned immature. The people who embody them seem to be living out the pink aisle and the war aisle at Toys R Us. The women are all playing dress-up and mommy and the men are all pretending to be GI Joe. Apparently no one wants to actually grow up and be a real adult with real maturity and responsibility.
Although maybe it's a self-fulfilling thing. We give our kids all these toys that reinforce the idea that all women do all day is clean, care for babies and make themselves pretty little objects for men, and that all men do all day is try to "win" some competition or other, preferably by the use of violence or other physical domination. The world of actual, complex, responsible adults is not represented in most children's toys. So unless a kid gets the message some other way about what being an adult entails, they never learn that there's more to life than makeup and automatic weapons.
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Absolutely. I think the vast majority of the problems kids have can be chalked up to lazy parents who prefer to let tv babysit their kid. Not that it's easy to insulate a kid from the damaging effects of mainstream media and other media-addled kids, but there's no point in doing nothing about it, either.