PRETTY IN PINK
While
reading in our Gendered Lives textbook I had one photo
that really stuck out to me. It was on page 50, it showed a father
and son in a mirror.
The Dad was shaving, and the little boy was imitating his dad by shaving. The
photograph was depicting gendered behaviors.
This weekend I attended my cousin’s
birthday party. My cousin realized at an early age that her sex was female, and since then she has developed
a learned behavior,
loving the color PINK.
After reading many Princess books, watching the Disney classics, and seeing
other girls, she has learned that girls like the color PINK. She turned FOUR on Sunday. Every single gift she
received was the color PINK,
and if it was not they she did not pay attention to it. I found it very
entertaining to observe her learned gender behaviors that she has imitated from
her fictional role models as well
as her older sister and mother…..
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ReplyDeleteHey Clare
ReplyDeleteHow Fun! What fun to watch your niece develop those traits. It is fun to watch girls develop their girly charateristics with all the world has to offer for us! Learning who we are can be a fun adventure in life! I like your separation of gendered behaviors and learned behaviors that is exactly what I feel happens as well. We are born with certain characteristics and then we learn about what those traits are when we are born. Like you pointed out our culture and how we are raised teaches us those behaviors as well.