Biological Arguments about Gender Difference
1. Look at the link below and examine the images posted on gender and toys. Describe the images that you focused on. Identify some of the gendering of products (such as how little boys’ toys are often active, engaging, and require critical thinking, whereas girls’ toys are often reduced to housework or caregiving).
One toy that caught my attention the most was the hot wheels. I remember playing with the exact same toy cars as a child. These toy cars came with a race track that require me challenge myself by putting together the tracks. Another toy that caught my attention was the Legos. This gendering product teaches children how to build simple and elaborate structures while still having a great time. I love how simple toys such as hot wheels, Legos, play dough, leap frog, and puzzles brings out creativity while teaching children the fundamental of having fun. Whereas, little girls toys insist of housework, caregiving, and stuffed animals like the easy bake oven and dolls that was shown. I believe most toys are divided by gender stereotypes than they were 50 years ago. A great example of this would be the colors blue and pink that leads to next question. 2. Discuss—as Fausto-Sterling would—how these products might have biological/physiological effects on children? According to Fausto, girls are verbal, while boys are physical. I agree, according to society this how each gender should behave. However, this is not the case, because little girls could play with either gendering product without being judged or mistreated by society. Whereas, little boys are judged and mistreated if they play with dolls and stuffed animals. I believe some products have a biological and physiological effect on a child life such as how they behave and live according to gender stereotypes. Then again, it is up to that child to live and accept their own definition of gender and sex. Redell King Assignment #2 Gender Issues Late Coming of Age and Coming out Ceremonies across Cultures 1. Look at the following segment of the National Geographic series Taboo focusing on Girl’s Rites of Passage: Apache Girls in New Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B3Abpv0ysM After viewing the clip, identify the initiation rites, the meaning behind them (stories), and the lessons initiates …show more content…
The four days ceremony encapsulate the Apache creation story by moving Inna Cochise through the stages of life infant, child, adolescent and womanhood. The ceremony begins with the rising of the morning star followed by an all-night dance of the young girl. These four days means little sleep, because emotion need to be set aside throughout the ordeal she about to encounter. The first day she is blessed with dust pollen to symbolize fertility, the second and third day the girls run toward the rising sun circling around a basket filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did. They must circle around the basket four times to mark the four stages of life. The fourth and final day brings Inna to the cusp of womanhood she will pray to mountain spirts for a long and successful life. The meaning behind the ceremony requires Inna to live by strict rules. Once the passage is completed Inna will receives the right of passages as a young
1. Look at the link below and examine the images posted on gender and toys. Describe the images that you focused on. Identify some of the gendering of products (such as how little boys’ toys are often active, engaging, and require critical thinking, whereas girls’ toys are often reduced to housework or caregiving).
One toy that caught my attention the most was the hot wheels. I remember playing with the exact same toy cars as a child. These toy cars came with a race track that require me challenge myself by putting together the tracks. Another toy that caught my attention was the Legos. This gendering product teaches children how to build simple and elaborate structures while still having a great time. I love how simple toys such as hot wheels, Legos, play dough, leap frog, and puzzles brings out creativity while teaching children the fundamental of having fun. Whereas, little girls toys insist of housework, caregiving, and stuffed animals like the easy bake oven and dolls that was shown. I believe most toys are divided by gender stereotypes than they were 50 years ago. A great example of this would be the colors blue and pink that leads to next question. 2. Discuss—as Fausto-Sterling would—how these products might have biological/physiological effects on children? According to Fausto, girls are verbal, while boys are physical. I agree, according to society this how each gender should behave. However, this is not the case, because little girls could play with either gendering product without being judged or mistreated by society. Whereas, little boys are judged and mistreated if they play with dolls and stuffed animals. I believe some products have a biological and physiological effect on a child life such as how they behave and live according to gender stereotypes. Then again, it is up to that child to live and accept their own definition of gender and sex. Redell King Assignment #2 Gender Issues Late Coming of Age and Coming out Ceremonies across Cultures 1. Look at the following segment of the National Geographic series Taboo focusing on Girl’s Rites of Passage: Apache Girls in New Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B3Abpv0ysM After viewing the clip, identify the initiation rites, the meaning behind them (stories), and the lessons initiates …show more content…
The four days ceremony encapsulate the Apache creation story by moving Inna Cochise through the stages of life infant, child, adolescent and womanhood. The ceremony begins with the rising of the morning star followed by an all-night dance of the young girl. These four days means little sleep, because emotion need to be set aside throughout the ordeal she about to encounter. The first day she is blessed with dust pollen to symbolize fertility, the second and third day the girls run toward the rising sun circling around a basket filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did. They must circle around the basket four times to mark the four stages of life. The fourth and final day brings Inna to the cusp of womanhood she will pray to mountain spirts for a long and successful life. The meaning behind the ceremony requires Inna to live by strict rules. Once the passage is completed Inna will receives the right of passages as a young