from: Natalie
The reason I chose to take a picture of this is because it's a perfect example that shows the difference between a boy and a girl in the society world based upon the ideas that boys where blue and girls where pink. I was at a family function over the weekend and I have twin cousins, one boy and one girl as you can see, and as soon as I saw the way they were dressed it was exactly what I had been looking for, for this particular assignment. As we said in class, even before you are born you are labeled as a color, not end. It's either blue for "a Boy!" or pink " a girl!". So why is it that when we are old enough TO decide what we wear, we are still choosing colors that differentiate us by gender. It's not like he is wearing pink and she is wearing blue, I mean we can tell by looking at them both that ones a boy and ones a girl, they do not need colors to show that. We say it's societies fault that it's this way, but if that is the case then why are we still teaching and dressing our kids to be like that. I believe we are still teaching our kids this kind of environment because society has manipulated us to think a certain way. I'm sure if my boy cousin were to see a blue and pink shirt next to each other and I were to ask him what he wanted to wear, there is no doubt in my mind he would choose the blue shirt, because that is what he is taught and same goes for her. I see them dressed all the time and she is usually in a little girl princess type outfit and he's in some shade of blue. I have seen their toys, she gets "girl" toys and he gets "boy" toys. They are the perfect example of social generalization. This picture just really proves our topic we talked about in class, how boys equal blue and girls equal pink.
5 comments:
I agree with Natalie. Society has manipulated us a certain way to think and that is boys are blue and girls are pink. If a boy is seen wearing pink or having a room decorated in all pink he would most likely be considered gay. If a girl wore blue and had a room decorated in all blue then she would be considered to be a tom boy. Also, I agree with Natalie when she says if she were to lay the shirts down and had the kids pick which ones they want than the girl would pick pink and the boy would pick blue. From the day kids are born we start teaching them these colors in the hospital because people bring presents, balloons, blankets, clothing, etc. for the baby and they never bring pink for a boy and blue for a girl.
Natalie makes many good points in her description. One that really stood out to me was, that they are a color before they are even born. When you go to a baby shower, its either all blue or all pink, indicating the sex of the baby. Or even when you buy baby clothes they are blue or pink, or the occasional green for the unknown sex. But even through out children’s lives they are constantly seeing this, through clothes toys or basically anything. I especially like this picture because it shows the older children are still wearing the pink or blue to define their gender. And I believe she is extremely right about which shirt her cousin would choose, because I know my cousins would do the exact same thing.
This is a really good picture to use but, I agree with her I don’t think girls should have to wear pink and boys should have to wear blue to be considered a boy or girl. I think we are teaching kids today the wrong message they should be able to wear the colors they want without being judged. I’ve always wonder why we start them off with pink or blue for being categorized as being a girl or boy, it basically mean we are taking their freedom away from being who they are or want to be by telling them what color they have to wear.
Brittni
I think that Pink equals girls and blue equals boys is a big subject to talk about. I mean that girls are alway associated with the color pink and boys are associated with blue always and that sound like it a steriotype for boys and girls.
The age old debate on why boys wear blue and girls wear pink... I think with the times, people are changing, I think people nowadays try to stear away from blue/pink. Alot of people, including my own nephews, nieces, and cousins, all have alot of green and yellow. I think because everyone is "politically correct", people dont want to classify their kids to one or the other anymore. I think by classifying them at such a young age teaches them limits.
Im a guy and i like wearing pink, i look good in pink, but it took a lot ot finally pull myslef to wear it. It made me understand how hard it was to break the gender socializations. I think the only way to break them dowqn is to start early when the kids are born, show them that if they can nwear whatever they want, they can do whatever they want. If you can battle social pressure, i think you can do anything.
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