Toys and Gender Ideology
Many people most often cannot distinguish the difference between gender and sex. Sex is anatomical and biological factor that is determined where as gender is just an set expectations/norm from society on how a person should act, dress, and talk based upon their sex. The majority of people conforms to those roles very early on, particularly on youth, but sometimes the people do not read in-between the lines of femininity and masculinity. Who has the power to judge and say that just because someone is a male they have to act manly and if someone else posses characteristics of a female must be girly? The media, for one, in the most appealing and most active entertainment for young children as they ideas of this every …show more content…
Rarely will there ever be commercial in which the man is showing any sign of femininity, that wasn’t meant as a joke that can clearly be understood as offensive, although as the world is changing we can notice the evident change now. Girls, on the other hand, are portrayed as soft-spoken, beauty-oriented, delicate, and they wear their emotions on their sleeves. All these toys on tv are also shown on tv base everything on color-codes with rigid boundaries that segregate blue action figures from pretty pink princesses, and most assume that this is how it’s always been. This is often a large issue when a parents buys girl dolls, dollhouses, high-heeled shoes, and makeup, they give one set of messages. If they buy boys chemistry sets, tool kits, doctor’s bags, building blocks, and wheel toys, they give another set of messages. Children learn the roles and skills from playing; the toys they have to some extent determine which roles and skills they learn. What’s the big deal if a toy is blue or pink or if it’s a doll or an action figure? Isn’t it just advertising trying to sell a product? This is a significant issue because these messages of consumption are lessons about gender roles and …show more content…
She has long blonde hair, big blue eyes, tall, thin, athletic physique, and considered beautiful are the type of characteristics that are seen to be linked to this toy Barbie. The assumed use of this doll was not invented to influence anyone’s gender but to be a simple entertainment. As we can all distinguish the difference between males and female Barbie makes it even more obvious by encouraging stereotypical feminine roles. At first glance, it might seem as Barbie has a wide variety of careers that can be a good influence on young girls however, it 's not necessarily what she does, but how she does it. For example, Barbie may be a Doctor, but she is not a brain surgeon or Psychologist. She is simply just called Doctor Barbie and comes with two babies and comes with accessories that show she is ready for work in hot pink spandex and high heels. The dilemma here is not whether Barbie was dressed as a model or as a pediatrician, however it suggests that the doll 's sexualized shape and appearance trumps whatever accessories are packaged with her also creates a big impact on young girls that aspire to be like Barbie. Furthermore, the sexualized dimensions of the doll, its carefully crafted brand image, or some aspects of her getup for instance, Doctor Barbie comes with pink glittery jeans and a low-cut scrubs shirt that can be considered to be inappropriate overrides her intended
Many people most often cannot distinguish the difference between gender and sex. Sex is anatomical and biological factor that is determined where as gender is just an set expectations/norm from society on how a person should act, dress, and talk based upon their sex. The majority of people conforms to those roles very early on, particularly on youth, but sometimes the people do not read in-between the lines of femininity and masculinity. Who has the power to judge and say that just because someone is a male they have to act manly and if someone else posses characteristics of a female must be girly? The media, for one, in the most appealing and most active entertainment for young children as they ideas of this every …show more content…
Rarely will there ever be commercial in which the man is showing any sign of femininity, that wasn’t meant as a joke that can clearly be understood as offensive, although as the world is changing we can notice the evident change now. Girls, on the other hand, are portrayed as soft-spoken, beauty-oriented, delicate, and they wear their emotions on their sleeves. All these toys on tv are also shown on tv base everything on color-codes with rigid boundaries that segregate blue action figures from pretty pink princesses, and most assume that this is how it’s always been. This is often a large issue when a parents buys girl dolls, dollhouses, high-heeled shoes, and makeup, they give one set of messages. If they buy boys chemistry sets, tool kits, doctor’s bags, building blocks, and wheel toys, they give another set of messages. Children learn the roles and skills from playing; the toys they have to some extent determine which roles and skills they learn. What’s the big deal if a toy is blue or pink or if it’s a doll or an action figure? Isn’t it just advertising trying to sell a product? This is a significant issue because these messages of consumption are lessons about gender roles and …show more content…
She has long blonde hair, big blue eyes, tall, thin, athletic physique, and considered beautiful are the type of characteristics that are seen to be linked to this toy Barbie. The assumed use of this doll was not invented to influence anyone’s gender but to be a simple entertainment. As we can all distinguish the difference between males and female Barbie makes it even more obvious by encouraging stereotypical feminine roles. At first glance, it might seem as Barbie has a wide variety of careers that can be a good influence on young girls however, it 's not necessarily what she does, but how she does it. For example, Barbie may be a Doctor, but she is not a brain surgeon or Psychologist. She is simply just called Doctor Barbie and comes with two babies and comes with accessories that show she is ready for work in hot pink spandex and high heels. The dilemma here is not whether Barbie was dressed as a model or as a pediatrician, however it suggests that the doll 's sexualized shape and appearance trumps whatever accessories are packaged with her also creates a big impact on young girls that aspire to be like Barbie. Furthermore, the sexualized dimensions of the doll, its carefully crafted brand image, or some aspects of her getup for instance, Doctor Barbie comes with pink glittery jeans and a low-cut scrubs shirt that can be considered to be inappropriate overrides her intended