Unnecessary Gender Items Analysis

Unnecessary Gender Items It’s not unusual in today’s society to be filled with stereotypes and gender inequalities. Are these gender inequalities becoming a norm in today’s society, or has it always been the norm? When you’re at the store, what do you notice? Items seem to be connected to just a single gender, but some of them can become a little more sexist than you’d actually believe. Feminist would find many of these items degrading according to their outlook that women are created equal to me, but do these products represent that? In this essay I will analyze five different items that are clearly directed towards the different genders, while using the sociological perspective. A soup in Germany can ultimately be seen as gender specific (click here to see image), it displays a soup in a pink package and one in a blue package. The stereotype here is that girls are seen as liking princesses and love the color pink. Boys on the other hand are associated with the color blue and “manly” jobs like firefighting. This is the most stereotypical of the five items gathered for this analysis, because it displays both sides of the spectrum. Analyzing this product is easy, because it is so gender bias. Of course boys would be the firemen and girls would be the princesses. Would a child be seen differently if a girl wanted the one with the fireman and vice versa? …show more content…
A patriarchy is a male-dominated society or social structure and within this male dominated society we have norms that centered on men called androcentrism. So it’s not shocking the society presents these norms on men and women. Men are seen as powerful for a reason and a lot of products are representing that whether it’s as obvious as the five products discussed in this essay. Women are supposed to glide alongside men and be beautiful and skinny, because sometimes in todays patriarchy society they’re seen as the mans