Learning Gender Roles through Toys Gender roles, what is that? Well it is social and individual, they decide how guys and females ought to think, talk, dress, and cooperate inside the setting of society. Many people may not know this exist in the 21st century. Well in-fact it happens right in front of you every day, for example, babies being teached what to like and dislike, kids being influenced by television, adolescents following others, and adults following along what to do because of the way society has already influenced them. Well to prove that these gender roles do exist, I did a gender socialization experiment where I went into Walmart and took pictures of the Boy & Girl aisle. Now in this essay I will talk to you about the gender
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To begin with, I will start off with both common toys I found in the boys and girls aisle from Walmart. As you can see in Figure 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, & 12, those toys were all the common toys that are on display for our children to look at and desire to obtain. Basically every aisle looked like a classification of gender norm and what that is, is a behavior or attribute that society features to a particular sex. Like for instance, as I walked into one aisle I would already know “oh, this is the boys aisle” only because of how society has implementing our minds to believe that seeing trucks, guns and football only pertains to boys, and dolls, cooking sets, & designing playsets belong to girls. So now when you look at the six pictures, you can see that each common toys represent a different sex. The common boy toys obviously are small cars, Legos, and Nerf guns, they all represent a boy’s masculinity. All of those common boy toys have the …show more content…
As you see in figure 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, & 18, each of these toys influences the kids towards building a relationship, if it is not with other kids then it is with the toys or object that they are using. When looking at the boy toys in figure 7-9 you see that boys interact more with Lego sets, army play sets, and bikes. These toys teach these kids to interact more by letting boys build the Legos and allowing others to help out, also by playing with the army figures where one kid sets up his army and another kid joins to set up his army and they play it out, and last by letting kids ride their bikes they meet many new kids around their neighborhood and interacting. Of course girls on the contrary are held back and have to stay inside or away from being adventurous because most toys that are displayed for girls are doll sets and make up sets. These toys influence many girls into sharing a bond with other girls, like playing dress up and tea time with each other, they share a girl’s interaction that eventually becomes a sisterhood. To my perspective, I believe that these aisles are created by a lot of sexism, only because it is so unjust how this aisle belongs to girls and this to boys, why can’t society change into accepting everything
To begin with, I will start off with both common toys I found in the boys and girls aisle from Walmart. As you can see in Figure 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, & 12, those toys were all the common toys that are on display for our children to look at and desire to obtain. Basically every aisle looked like a classification of gender norm and what that is, is a behavior or attribute that society features to a particular sex. Like for instance, as I walked into one aisle I would already know “oh, this is the boys aisle” only because of how society has implementing our minds to believe that seeing trucks, guns and football only pertains to boys, and dolls, cooking sets, & designing playsets belong to girls. So now when you look at the six pictures, you can see that each common toys represent a different sex. The common boy toys obviously are small cars, Legos, and Nerf guns, they all represent a boy’s masculinity. All of those common boy toys have the …show more content…
As you see in figure 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, & 18, each of these toys influences the kids towards building a relationship, if it is not with other kids then it is with the toys or object that they are using. When looking at the boy toys in figure 7-9 you see that boys interact more with Lego sets, army play sets, and bikes. These toys teach these kids to interact more by letting boys build the Legos and allowing others to help out, also by playing with the army figures where one kid sets up his army and another kid joins to set up his army and they play it out, and last by letting kids ride their bikes they meet many new kids around their neighborhood and interacting. Of course girls on the contrary are held back and have to stay inside or away from being adventurous because most toys that are displayed for girls are doll sets and make up sets. These toys influence many girls into sharing a bond with other girls, like playing dress up and tea time with each other, they share a girl’s interaction that eventually becomes a sisterhood. To my perspective, I believe that these aisles are created by a lot of sexism, only because it is so unjust how this aisle belongs to girls and this to boys, why can’t society change into accepting everything