Gender Stereotypes In Tomb Girls

Gender plays a big part in our society rather we realize it or not. We tell girls that they should wear dresses and dream to be a princess when they grew up. We tell boys to get dirty and stop crying if they fall. When a child goes not conform to the roles society has placed on gender than they are labeled as LGBT, even when they may not be. If a boy likes to play with dolls than people assumed the child is gay and if I girl likes to get her hands dirty than she is a tomboy. I wonder why there is not a term used for boys who don’t like to get hurt, rather than just labeling them as gay. Even with the term tomboy why is gender stilled based off the term. In the document we had to read the baby was not raised based on his or her gender and they
Television tends to have hidden messages that people over look. In the day and age that we live in technology plays a huge role in children and adults lives. Many of the Princess and prince shows are about how the princess needs help and a big, strong, handsome princes comes to save them. This teaches girls that all they have to do is wait on a boy to save them and they should rely on boys when in trouble. This also teaches boys that they have to be strong and protect the girls because they can’t protect themselves. Not only does this case girls to have low self-esteem but also health problems. Girls are portrayed in movies, magazines, and television shows to be super skinny and have glowing skin. This is why so many girls are anorexic and bulimic because the skinny image is pushed upon girls more than boys. I did not know that teletubbies had gender roles in them. According to the article, Tinky Winky and Dipsy are the male characters and Laa-Laa and Po are the female characters. I just assumed that since they did not look like a boy or girl that this show would not have gender roles in it but I was wrong. I knew colors like pink were said to be for girls and blue for boys but I was unaware that dark colors were for boys and light colors were for girls. The articled talked about height and how girls are portrayed as short while males are tall, but I feel as if that is not true because models only want talker girls. I think height has more
The students in X’s class tried to make him fit into the gender group but they could not. Later one of the students said that X was having twice as fun as they were because X gets to play with the things girls and boys play with. When we set gender roles on kids they tend to believe they can only do the things that fit their gender. If boys began to cook, clean, and play with dolls the parents tell their son to stop and tell them all the things boys are supposed to do. Does playing with dolls, cooking, and cleaning really hurt the child in any way? If not I think it makes the son become more independent. When boys go off to college they tend to have to eat out or eat the food their mom sends them because they weren’t taught to cook. When girls have a flat tire, some do not know who to fix it because their parents told them it was a man’s job. This hinders the daughter because now she is stuck somewhere on the side of the road because her parents told her that only boys change tires. All the student’s parents though X was mixed-up and had an identity problem because he did not conform to society’s view on gender. I thought this document was great but for all children to be like X, I think is never going to happen. There will always be people who do not fit into certain groups and people force them to change so they can fit into the group they want them to be