it starts with pink and blue birthday cards. Toy trucks for him and Barbie dolls for her. Prepackaged ideals judging children based on gender. And it doesn't stop there. I have no idea where this stero type has come from but it has been one of the BIGGEST "here to stay" type of stereo type. I personally have no problem with the color pink:) but do i like it because that's all society would approve me to have-along with other things- as a girl? Did i like the toys in my "girl" happy meal, or would i have been HAPPIER with the toys in the "boy" happy meal? i will never know. This stero type lays so low but effects society in high ranks, girls could grow into something totally different if all of this "girly" pressure wasn't pushed on us...in the days before us, women were obligated to wear dresses, then they felt obligate to be sexy with the hair etc, and it just grew from there.
I personally love to get up in the morning, do my hair, get dressed in a cute outfit with heels :) but it's because i just love fashion!..and some girls don't like getting cutesy in the morning. but who said sweat pants and a t shirt wasn't cutsey??- society..ugh.
Over all if you want to be you be you..not what society was trying to make you from birth with the pink and blue blankets.
I personally love to get up in the morning, do my hair, get dressed in a cute outfit with heels :) but it's because i just love fashion!..and some girls don't like getting cutesy in the morning. but who said sweat pants and a t shirt wasn't cutsey??- society..ugh.
Over all if you want to be you be you..not what society was trying to make you from birth with the pink and blue blankets.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with roni. Coming out the womb we are bombarded with these groups starting off with being apart of a group such as the color blue or pink. Then as children get older we are put into more and more groups of girls who like to dress up or girl who may be consider tomboyish. I find thats a big problem people should wear colors for this simple fact that they like that color not that society told us to. Its something that has been taught and apart of us that everything that is known to femenity is the color pink. The girl commericals have pink thoughtout the commercials, while the boys have blue or black.
ReplyDeleteI know when I was a child my whole room was done in pink including the carpet. The reason why was because barbie's comforters came in nothing but pink. Forcing young girls to only recognize the color pink as being girly. So to match my bathroom I also had a "pink" bathroom because I just thought that was the cutest color and me being a girl that was what I was supposed to do. Looking back on my childhood I now realize I like colors such as chocolate over pink or greens. This just proves as children we are program to like the color pink being a girl.
Maybe if society didnt force children to choose what they will forever be classified as. We wouldnt have so much sexism???
I agree with both Real.Talk.Roni and Real.Talk.Lani. That, why does society and media make the decision that pink is a girl color and blue is a boy color. I know that this portrayed everywhere, for example as I was walking down the baby clothing department, wondering which gift I was going to bring to the baby shower. I notice that everything was either pink or blue, and now there’s not even a nuetral they’ve given us the “unspoken rule” that yellow or green is a he or she color. And that’s horrible that in todyas society, parents are pressured to choose which color to paint their precious new babies bed room. So, thumps up to those parents whose babies girls room is green and there babies boys room is yellow.
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The color pink is for girls, but I've seen guys wear it( usually in the form of an accesory). Girls are supposed to love pink, but I dislike it. The stereotype of blue is for boys and pink is for girls is now usually followed by old fashioned people and by the parents of babies. I don't really care about the stereotype very much, but that may be because I was born in another country where that stereotype didn't really exist. Girls did wear much more pink and brighter colors than boys, but it wasn't really much of a stereotype. I don't think that people should choose colors based on stereotypes.
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