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Gender Roles And Toys

Since the conception of children's toys thewear suits and go off to work each day to
existence of gender roles has been prominent.bring home the bacon for the family. As times
Boys should get trucks and cars and girlshave changed these are no longer the "norms"
should get dolls and tea-sets, however, oneof society however, we still push on to our
is forced to look at this belief with achildren the repercussions of not sticking to
little more criticism in the more modernthose norms. Are we really afraid of our
times of today. What is the major issue withchildren becoming less than the gender roles
a boy who likes to play with dolls or thewe  were  expected  to  be?
girl who likes to play with cars? Perhaps not
so much for the girl who plays with cars butThe unfortunate aspect of the fact that we
for the boy who likes to play with dolls hepush such expectations on our children is
is pigeonholed as being a homosexualthat we are not allowing them the freedom to
child...but who makes these rules? Whobe who they want to and perhaps were destined
decides that boys should not be allowed tobe. We are pushing on to them the expectation
play with dolls? The truth of the matter isthat they should at least be A and not B
that  we,  as  a  society  do.which in essence shapes them to pursue
certain paths in life instead of allowing
There are no repercussions that come with athem the tabula rasa that all children really
boy who plays with dolls, other than theshould be permitted. It is not the fault of
social isolation that is forced upon him bythe toys nor the children; however, it is the
society. A boy that plays with dolls and afault of society as a whole for shaping us to
girl that plays with cars and trucks arebe such a judgmental race when faced with
nothing more than children exploring toys;people and ideas that do not fit the "norm"
they are not yet old enough to understand theof  hundreds  of  years  ago.
cubbyholes and labels we like to force on to
each other as a society. For some unexplainedSo how do we rid ourselves of this self
reason it is believed that the mere action ofimposed cubby-holing that is stunting the
playing with a set of toys one will becomeemotional growth and general accepting nature
more or less masculine or feminine when thisof our world's future generation? Give your
is  simply  untrue.son a Barbie or two and let your daughter
play with a monster truck or wrestling figure
There was a time in our history as a raceonce in a while, it's not going to kill them
that being increasingly masculine or feminineand nor is it going to make them something
was the norm, little girls were expected toless than what they already are: innocent
wear only frilly dresses and stay at home inchildren with a brand new slate ready for
the kitchen (a la "barefoot and pregnant"writing.
stereotype), and little boys were expected to



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