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if girls play with princess toys, then isn’t this oppression of the female race from the start? is society teaching bias from birth?
Sonny
if girls play with princess toys, then isn’t this oppression of the female race from the start? is society teaching bias from birth?
Sonny
August 27th, 2007 - 5:24 am
No, but usually girls will just see pretty things and like them, and if they want to play with princess toys then it does not matter. When I was a child, I had Barbies and such, but I also played with my brothers’ guns, and toy soldiers and that sort of thing.
August 28th, 2007 - 11:03 am
Well, I think it’s a tad bit extreme to call a princess toy oppression. However, it may cause the girls to internalize an unrealistic ideal of female beauty. When she gets older and realizes she can never look like Barbie, it may give her low self-esteem. I think it’s fine for parents to give girls dolls, if that’s what they want to play with. I played with dolls all the time as a little girl, but I was also taught by my parents that my self worth was not based upon my looks. Instead, I base my worth on how I treat others and how I behave. I think parents should buy whatever their kids like. My toddler son loves to watch girlie cartoons like Strawberry Shortcake and I let him. I figure he’ll be pressured into conforming soon enough.
August 28th, 2007 - 8:17 pm
It is not bias, it is just letting the kids know who they are and how to differenciate between a man and woman. U buy male toys for a baby girl and she will grow up to dress like a boy or perhaps posses male attitude—he girl in lesbianism.
August 29th, 2007 - 7:17 pm
Parents tend to project onto their children rather than just letting them play with whatever toy they want.
And yes, we are training gender from birth.
There was an interesting experiment years ago in which people of various ages and cultures were told to keep and eye on the baby in the other room in case it cried (turned out to be a recording). Half were told it was a little girl, and half a little boy. For female babies, almost everyone got up immediately. For male babies, it cried and cried and cried until it screamed bloody murder. Females are more “pampered” emotionally as infants. Males are left alone to learn independence.
August 31st, 2007 - 10:58 pm
As a woman who was a member of the womens lib movement, I know and so should evryone by now there are difference in how the male and female brain works. It is a fact dose not mean one is better than the other. It dose mean we will like different things including toys.
September 1st, 2007 - 10:37 pm
I think it stems from more of a homophobic society than anything else. People don’t want their sons playing with Barbies because that would make them ***.(not really) I do agree that it is conditioning from birth what boys and girls should be doing.
September 3rd, 2007 - 8:18 pm
No. That’s the way society is, and the way society is is largely based these days on the actual differences between men and woman. To give all kids all the same toys is naive, because all kids aren’t alike.
Besides, if they don’t want to play with the toys, they won’t; if they do, they will.
September 6th, 2007 - 12:54 pm
girls have been getting dolls because they were the ones who were gonna raise a baby or child someday. boys got guns because they were gonna fight in a war someday
September 7th, 2007 - 2:04 pm
Well they have to wear bras eventually so why not learn now? You want your little girl growing up as a boy? I think not..
September 9th, 2007 - 6:56 pm
It is called “Conditioning” to conform,socially produce,not allow your kid to “lag behind” others with much hormonal proclivity,etc.Sucess securing,not personality coaching.
September 11th, 2007 - 1:20 pm
I’m sorry all of you lot above me, but you clearly don’t have children.
When I was a child (female) I LOVED playing in mud, with trucks and action figures etc, despite my parents best attempts to make me girly.
I now have a five year old daughter, and I bought her cars, guns, trucks etc etc but the child is BIOLOGICALLY predisposed to liking PINK. Trust me when I say, I have tried everything to get her to like ‘other’ toys. She has had a natural inclination for ‘girl’ toys ever since the day she was born.
Its nature mostly, not just nurture. otherwise, how do you think these male / female toys came in to existance anyway?
September 11th, 2007 - 2:19 pm
Here’s a surprising fact: women are men are NOT equal!!!
In society, sure we deserve to be equal I’m 100% for that, but our brains are different, and work differently. It’s OKAY to have feminine objects and masculine objects. I’d rather be considered feminine than butch any day. What’s so wrong with giving a girl a princess toy and a little boy a GI Joe? If they wanted to play with something else, give them something else. I’m sick of people thinking there are no differences between the sexes. I LIKE wearing pink, and I DO consider it a very feminine colour that only some men can pull off, what’s the big deal with that? Giving a girl a princess isn’t oppression, it’s a fantasy. Girls want to grow up and be princess’, or is that princes? No, it’s princess’ because we imagine we’ll have long shiny hair (like a girl), get to wear nice gowns (like a girl) and have a prince (that is a guy). I **** hearing about asexual people like you.
September 15th, 2007 - 1:47 am
You need to be educated in this area. You speak as an ideologue, not as a person scientifically informed.
PS Read the two answers just above and come out from under whatever delusion you are in.
September 16th, 2007 - 4:21 pm
I played with Tonka trucks as a kid and used to rip the heads off Barbie Dolls( hey I have 2 brothers, why can’t I play in the mud too?), but don’t really feel ‘butch’ as such and am straight. Am feminine too, but only when I feel like it and in my own way, not how society dictates it.
So if I like to go fishing which is seen as a men’s pastime and sport does that make me unfeminine too? And if I like to watch footy?
September 17th, 2007 - 11:19 am
“oppression” you talk as if a girl/woman wants to be feminine that they are some how going down the wrong path. Sounds like you have the problem.
September 19th, 2007 - 5:25 am
This girl was born a boy, and she did not know it because her parents did not tell her. She still refused to play with Barbies and could not help but be drawn to trucks. Both males and females have differences in their makeup which make them want to experience different things when playing with toys.
September 19th, 2007 - 8:26 pm
because we’re homophobic…we don’t want the girls to be too masculine, nor the boys too feminine