Adolescent is essential in understanding gender development. With a society that classifies everything in feminine or masculine. Children are identifying by colors and toys. Girl’s wear pink, play with dolls and have pretend kitchen while, boys wear blue, play with action figures and have pretend guns. These differences are still instilled in young children what is socially acceptable. Some stores have tried to combat the gender stereotype by eliminating toys aisle and instead use a genderless aisle. The removal of gender label removes gender stereotypes. However, gender differences are also evidences in marketing advertised. Stores like Walmart and Toys R US recently, tried to tone down their gender specific children’s marketing. Toys can be representative as way children should be gender identities. For example, females should play with dolls. However, playing with dolls does not naturally portray person as feminine or it proves a girl as female. By …show more content…
the removal of gender associated aisle, it allows children to explore different activities and toys before that would be a barrier. Gender identity is stereotypes of what is masculinity and femininity that separates people. It may seem like a logically inconsistent with reality for example, identiity feminine, therefore I m female to I’m masculine, therefore I’m male. Therefore, if sexuality was not gender different there would be no lesbian, gays or transgender people. If gender identify is understood not define by feminine with X chromosomes and masculine by Y chromosomes but, instead by what a person is sexually attracted to. For example, a person identifies as female because they are attracted to male and a male is attractive to a female. If people take the concept at face value, then they would be not having a gender identity. With the changes on views of gender, peg the question if gender now transferable?
The concept may seem so simple but it’s a very complex subject matter. With the recent resurgent of transgender, acceptances of what is indefinable gender is socially acceptable. Gender dysphoria formerly known as Gender Identity Disorder is a defined by strong, persistent feeling of identification with the opposite gender and feel discomfort with the assign sex. People with gender dysphoria live as members of the opposite sex by dress attire and mannerism. If a person identified as boy may feel and act like a girl. Several studies have tracked the president of gender dysphoria in children. Many research shows young children is highly unstable and likely to change. There is not predication of gender dysphoric in children. Some young children are highly unstable and likely to change because of social or parental influence. For the children that stay in gender dysphoric many are give hormone suppression before
puberty. It is essentials support gender identity in children development. It may secure the future elimination of gender dysphoria and provided more acceptances of people being their true self. Changing, what is socially acceptable of gender can reduce the adulthood confirmative. Society is no longer prepared to tolerate unnecessary gender classification. Adolescent would not be gender identity by social stigma of girls being delicate flowers and boys being tough. If changes are not meet, sacrificing the present and future well-being merely in order to appease outdate notions of socially adequate.
What is Gender Dysphoria? A clinical definition may be, “The condition of feeling one 's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one 's biological sex.” There is a growing amount of scientific research that suggests gender identity develops at a very early age. So, what are the ethical considerations of gender-reassignment treatments for minors suffering from gender dysphoria? Children can be diagnosed with GD as early as age five. Following, most girls start puberty when they are between the ages of eight and thirteen years old. Then, most boys start puberty when they are between the ages of ten and fifteen years old.
Based on my observation, Walmart is one of the toy retailers labeled and categorized toys by gender. They placed “Girls” and “Boys” signs over their toy aisles. Initially, I studied the toys under
The socialization of children is greatly affected by the toys they are exposed to while growing up. Looking through magazines and walking down the aisles of toy stores it is clear that toy companies are supportive of cultural gender roles biases. Toys designed for girls are commonly found in pink boxes; typically these toys involve housework or taking care of children, for example, dolls and easy bake ovens. On the other hand, “boy” toys are found in blue and black boxes, and a lot of them involve construction and cars.
In the article The gender Marketing of toys: An Analysis of Color and Type of Toy on the Disney Store Website, Auster and Mansbach conducted research to examine the gender marketing of toys on the internet. They looked at what characteristics of “boys and girls” toys share, such as color of toy, type of toy, and witch toys were labeled for girls and boys. The pre - research of this study suggested that children are making gender distinctions of themselves and their group based on the types of toys that are bought for them. Bright and darker colors are meant as a distinction for “boy” toys, while pastel colors are meant for “girl” toys. The previous research also suggested that toys for boys and girls express traditional gender roles and that gender neutral toys are more likely to
Gender Socialization plays a big part in a child’s life in shaping their femininty and masculinity. Every child is brought with to have played with at least one toy to have called their own. Now, the purpose of the research that has been conducted is to take a further look into how toys that is sold through stores and played by children. This will then give hindsight as to how what is considered the gender norm has a part in gender role stereotyping and the affect these toys have on children view of gender characteristics.
“What? A boy playing with Barbie dolls? That’s messed up man. Only girls play with dolls. Everyone knows that!” This is an answer from Cavin, seven years old, when asked what he thought about boys playing with Barbie dolls. Listening to these words can make one realize that even from a young age, children have been strongly impacted by gender through society. According to sociologist James M. Henslin, gender is “the behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity” (280). Throughout time gender has been a way of thinking about what is appropriate of different sex, a term which Henslin defines as “biological characteristics that distinguish females and males, consisting of primary and secondary sex characteristics” (280). Since many years ago society has solidly built characteristics of gender and kept encouraging traditional gender roles to new generations. Toys, a common object which many children play with in the beginning of their lives, is actually an agent of gender socialization that many people take for granted. Through observations at a local toy store, such as Toys R Us, one can recognize how toys reinforce gender roles.
As a child, a toy is more than just something to play with, it becomes a friend and a companion. Toys play a crucial role in children's lives because this is what begins to shape their ideals. But where is the desire for these toys coming from? From the day they are born children are being marketed to and sold on these toys. Every interaction the child has is sending them messages, whether implicit or explicit, to want this toy or item. They may see another child with a truck, or a Barbie and want that one. They may be watching television by themselves, or even with mom and dad, and see something being played with by happy smiling children and have the desire for that same experience. Even when it comes to parents talking about what clothes the child should be wearing because they are not old enough to choose for themselves, children are being taught, and sold on everything. It is from this age that children are learning about the toys that are appropriate for their gender not only from friends and parents, but through the media and big corporations as well. Companies such as Nickelodeon, Mattel, Toys R' Us, Tonka, Tyco and many more are instilling these old ideals into children's heads and selling them on generic gender biased toys and clothing. Out of all those companies however, by far the worst company continuing stereotypical gender perceptions is Disney. For the past twenty five years, Disney has been perpetuating these gender roles and ideals through every movie, film, and cartoon they have produced. Through the remainder of this paper, I will walk you through the up and coming issue of "Princess Culture", the psychology of selling through colors, typical types of toys and gender-neutral toys.
Girls are supposed to play with dolls, wear pink, and grow up to become princesses. Boys are suppose to play with cars, wear blue, and become firefighters and policemen. These are just some of the common gender stereotypes that children grow up to hear. Interactions with toys are one of the entryway to different aspects of cognitive development and socialism in early childhood. As children move through development they begin to develop different gender roles and gender stereotypes that are influenced by their peers and caregivers.
Gender Stereotyping in the Toy Market and Its Effect on Society While many parts of society dealing with gender inequality have made great strides in recent years, there is one area in which reform is lagging behind. Gender roles have been a steady source of influence in the toy market since the mid 1900s. As stated by Elizabeth Sweet, a sociologist at the University of California, “The world of toys looks a lot more like 1952 than 2012” (Sweet, 2012). The idea of gender norms in this market is a good reflection of the current state of our society’s beliefs on these sorts of issues.
According to the DSM-5, gender dysphoria is “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender” (American Psychological Association, 2013). Even though studies have shown that not every individual suffers from distress, it is still possible that an individual might suffer from distress due to the hormonal treatment or surgical procedure(s). In the past, gender dysphoria has been referred to as “gender identity”. However, gender identity, by the DSM-IV definition, is “a category of social identity and refers to an individual’s identification as male, female, or occasionally, some category other than male or female” (American Psychological Association, 2000). Individuals that identify themselves with another gender tend to change their gender, which has been proven to be a hard and long process.
If we try to categorize human by the term “gender”, people will be divided into two groups, males and females. Using this kind of categorization, it is considering people who belong in the same group are similar, and these two groups are very different from each other. However in real life, men and women’s characteristics tend to overlap (Crespi) . Even people who are in the same group may have different characteristics and personalities which are formed influencing by the environment and experiences.
Changes in society have brought issues regarding gender stereotype. Gender roles are shifting in the US. Influences of women’s movement (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006) and gender equality movement (e.g., Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)) have contributed to expanding social roles for both genders. Nevertheless, gender stereotypes, thus gender stereotype roles continue to exist in the society (Skelly & Johnson, 2011; Wood & Eagly, 2010). With changes in gender roles, pervasiveness of gender stereotype results in a sense of guilt, resentment, and anger when people are not living up to traditional social expectations (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006). Furthermore, people can hold gender stereotype in pre-reflective level that they may
The work's topicality is characterized by the existence of the gender stereotypes in society, having generalization, and does not reflect individual differences in the human categories. Meanwhile, there is still discrimination on the labour market, human trafficking, sexual harassment, violence, women and men roles and their places in the family. Mass media offers us the reality, reduces the distance, but we still can see the negative aspects too. TV cultivates gender stereotypes, offering ideas about gender, relationships and ways for living. Such media ideas attach importance to many people in the society. Consequently, it is quite important identify gender stereotypes in the media, in order to prevent false views relating to gender stereotypes.
For example, people can simply just not conform to society’s standards of gender norms. If the patient is happy cross-dressing or being a “tomboy” or “girly-boy” without distress or a strong desire to be another gender than the one assigned to them at birth, than a diagnosis of gender dysphoria may not be made. Transvestic disorder is different because it involves sexual excitement from cross-dressing and does not make the patient question their given gender and therefore is not gender dysphoria. Body dysmorphic disorder is only dissatisfaction with a specific body part, not necessarily a sex characteristic, and feeling the need to remove it. Gender dysphoria also tends to be comorbid with anxiety and depressive disorders. Because of their dismissive attitude of gender norms, children may be ostracized in social situations making them develop some form of depressive disorder that carries to
The gender stereotypes we are experiencing today are outdated and need change. Right now, gender marketing is higher than it has ever been. A comparison can be shown as Robb states “In the 1970s…few children’s’ toys were targeted specifically at boys or girls at all; nearly 70% of toys had no gender-specific labels at all” (Robb). Since the 70’s gender marketing has climbed its way up to its peak. There is a sort of disconnect between marketing and new gender advancements that have been occurring recently. The gender standards that are currently being used are outdated and do not hold true as more women are excelling in the sciences, while more men choose to become stay at home fathers. The “Let Toys be Toys” campaign website claims that “themes of glamour and beauty in toys and playthings directed at even the youngest girls tips over into a worrying emphasis on outward appearance. Stereotyped attitudes about boys are equally harmful as the constant assumption reinforced in toy advertising and packaging that boys are inevitably rough, dirty, rowdy…which feeds low expectations of boys that undermine their performance at school”(“Let Toys be Toys”). These outcomes are not acceptable, and gender-neutral toys may aid in combat against these old age ideals, and could possibly help make the