Render, on 26 December 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:
The black and silver Easy-Bake Oven is a good idea, saw it on HuffPost already. When it comes to toys these are some other good ideas, choose wooden over plastic, mechanical over electronic. and learning value versus purely entertaining.
When it comes to clothes choose fashionable, something appropriate that would look good on an adult if a bigger size, so no tacky colors, cheap logos, or dumb cartoonish prints. Think classic boots and peacoats for outerwear.
Now the hard part is receiving gifts, they will be the total opposite. It is also not very appropriate to force others to get certain gifts, just be grateful and allow your child to wear it once or twice, or play with the toy given as a gift.
Ms. Pope did a good thing with her petition but it should not stop there. This is a step forward but we need more. Colors themselves should be neutral so there should be no need to have male or female colors, pink should be acceptable on a male, as blue on a female, and grey on both. Ms. Pope's brother should be able to play with a pink Easy-Bake or wear a pink shirt, so this is a mixed-blessing in that while they succeeded in getting a new color for the Easy-Bake they still upheld the color code of gender conformity.
I approve of the catalog where boys and girls are playing with the same toys. Win!
Telling children that boys act this way and girls act this way should be de-emphasized because it
can turn into gendered harrasment if a child is being forced or pressured by their peers or an adult.
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Gendered harassment is a term used to describe any unwanted behavior that acts to assert and police the boundaries of traditional gender norms: heterosexual masculinity and femininity. It is related to, but different from bullying. (Meyer, 2006)
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Forms of gendered harassment include: (hetero)sexual harassment, homophobic harassment, and harassment for gender non-conformity (or transphobic harassment). I link these three forms of harassment because they are linked to the norm-setting and policing of narrowly defined traditional heterosexual gender roles (Larkin, 1994; Renold, 2002; Smith & Smith, 1998; Stein, 1995)
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As I investigated this problem further, I learned that although BGLQT youth are commonly targeted for harassment, they are not the only ones suffering due to the homophobic and heteronormative climate of the school. Any student whose behavior is perceived to be different in some way can be isolated and harassed using anti-gay insults, and any student who wishes to establish his/her place in the social pecking order of the school must engage in heterosexualized discussions and behaviors which often include various forms of gendered harassment.
And for those wishing to claim gendered harrassment does not exist, well look at the sources, I am going to trust academia first and consider common opinion as unsophisticated; definitely uninformed.
For those who do not understand that even the many people who do not harrass others, but still maintain and project on others rigid social gender roles, they allow the climate for the harassers to operate in.
Edited by I believe you, 26 December 2012 - 02:13 PM.
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