Imagine passing through McDonalds, hungry to get your hands on a Happy Meal with crusty chicken nugget and salty thin fries. YUM! After waiting in the never ending line, your eyes wander to the glass case where the figures shout, “GIRLS ONLY” and “BOYS ONLY”. You curiously inspect the two shelves, realizing the girls display area holds pink and purple My Little Pony dolls and the other with Transformers. This is wrong due to the fact that institutions are automatically assuming identity preferences without taking a moment to truly get to know children. Society should take time to get to know children and let them grow up within true their identity.
Society is persuading children to assimilate by bombarding them with preset gender expectations. …show more content…
Dr. Campbell Leaper mentions, “...Many American parents encourage athletic participation (a masculine-stereotyped activity) in their daughters. In contrast, few parents encourage doll play (a feminine-stereotyped activity) in their sons.” This impacts the significance on what parents consider is acceptable or more fitter for signing up or supporting their kids toward. Additionally, on a New York Times Source, ‘Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Mostly Done by Women’, by Claire Cain Miller, “‘I ain’t gonna be a nurse; I don’t have the tolerance for people,’ he said. “I don’t want it to sound bad but I’ve always seen woman in the position of a nurse or some kind of health worker. I see it as more of a woman’s job.’” This encouragement is mostly being directed toward girls to have the freedom of ability, knocking down most girl gender conformations, but boys still hold stronger barriers from how they are free by society of the freedom of ability to express themselves. Society needs to stop pressuring young children to assimilate them into pathways and passions that don’t convey one’s identity. These areas that conformed kids into the box of ‘life’, are making it more difficult for kids to grow out of these expectations into finding themselves. Which would have been accessible if hadn’t put these apprehensions on young
Society is persuading children to assimilate by bombarding them with preset gender expectations. …show more content…
Dr. Campbell Leaper mentions, “...Many American parents encourage athletic participation (a masculine-stereotyped activity) in their daughters. In contrast, few parents encourage doll play (a feminine-stereotyped activity) in their sons.” This impacts the significance on what parents consider is acceptable or more fitter for signing up or supporting their kids toward. Additionally, on a New York Times Source, ‘Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Mostly Done by Women’, by Claire Cain Miller, “‘I ain’t gonna be a nurse; I don’t have the tolerance for people,’ he said. “I don’t want it to sound bad but I’ve always seen woman in the position of a nurse or some kind of health worker. I see it as more of a woman’s job.’” This encouragement is mostly being directed toward girls to have the freedom of ability, knocking down most girl gender conformations, but boys still hold stronger barriers from how they are free by society of the freedom of ability to express themselves. Society needs to stop pressuring young children to assimilate them into pathways and passions that don’t convey one’s identity. These areas that conformed kids into the box of ‘life’, are making it more difficult for kids to grow out of these expectations into finding themselves. Which would have been accessible if hadn’t put these apprehensions on young