From: Fanny
From a young age boys and girls begin to follow gender scripts. Not only are they born into thinking blue is for boys and pink is girls but they begin to think that its not ok to play with the opposite gender toy because its gross or it has "cooties" so that the boy or girl is kept away from the boyish and girly things . For example, in this picture I gave the little girl, my 7 year old sister, a toy gun and the little boy, my 6 year old brother, a barbie and the first thing they did was look at me with a confused face and asked me why they couldn't have the other toy. I then asked my brother who seemed to be more disgusted with the toy, why he didn't want to play with it, he said "its pink!". I wasn't surprised he was more upset about the color then the toy itself but who invented these gender stereotypes? Who said pink was for girls and blue was for boys? We have socially constructed all these silent rules that we've created two different cultures that something as simple as colors are universally understood as boy/girl.
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By Just Looking at this photo, I can tell that it hints directly to gender scripts it seems to examine male and female scripts, for example the toys that the two children are playing with. The male toys are being handed to the Female and the female toys handed to the male, and immediately there facial expressions as if they know they have the wrong toys. Seeing that one toy is pink and the other is a gun even though its not biological, boys tend to play with violent weapons such as a toy gun as females do dolls. This photo goes to show that scripts are even taken up early, early as 7 and 6.When scripts are taken up that early there’s no question about masculinity and Femininity, its already programmed. Colors play a huge part in cultures, although in different cultures some colors can be neutral for sex's.
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