Influence Of Gender Stereotypes

Around the world, there is not much difference in children’s toys, or kid’s sports. While the boys get to play with guns and cars, girls are usually playing with baby dolls and kitchen sets. We created certain toys for each gender and they influence roles in adulthood. Meanwhile, in sports, boys are mostly remembered in football and basketball, which is taught to be aggressive and competitive. On the other hand, girls are placed into sports that carry out movement, balance and non-aggressive contact, such as ballet, cheerleading, and gymnastics. From a young age, boys are taught to play with guns to grow strength, aggressiveness, and braveness, to become soldiers and independent beings. Girls grow up learning how to take care of their baby …show more content…
According to Dunn, men believe that women are not aggressive enough due to childhood stories and how they were taught to carry themselves. Dunn provides an example in which the captain of the woman’s soccer team must be escorted home at night from a local campus bar, while a “pencil necked male” can walk on their own. Dunn’s example defines women as less equal than men, which is another stereotype that was raised into us by society. The bouncer’s decision that the female should be escorted, indicates his assumption that she’s not capable of handling or defending herself at this time of the night. Thus, this shows that not only does it influence females, but how men examine females as a weaker gender. Although, many women can cause violence and have the confidence in themselves to mentally realize that they are more than capable of handling themselves and the task at hand, such as the boxer and the police officer; all woman should be raised on the mentality that they are just as aggressive and violent as men are to protect both genders from violence and to equalize the plain field when it comes to strength, violence and …show more content…
Dunn argues, “a failure to acknowledge the bad that women can do is a failure to take women seriously,” which leads to society being affected as a whole. Woman are naturally and physically weak. This in fact causes the treatment of men’s violence to become different than woman’s violence. A woman’s terror or domestic violence is seen as “self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man.” Because of her assumed role in today’s world as a nurturer and a care giver, when a woman causes an act of violence that cannot be linked back to a man, she is looked upon as a crazy wicked non-human monster. This all comes back to the stereotypical ignorance society has and the gender roles that are set for people since they were young. Society is affected due to men disregarding the terror and domestic violence that woman may cause, due to their equal capability of aggression and