04/18/20: Chapter 7 : Toys/Gender

When it comes to toys gender is a vital factor when it comes to children many parents choose to think of what color to paint there Childs room whether it be pink or blue. Prior to birth you are already socialized into a box of a gender and whatever gender you are born with we are socially constructed to put you in it. Toys are the same we look at a car we assume a boy we look at a doll we assume a girl because that is our gender norm. This clashes with gender identity because of how society has turned as a whole we now do not get based off the gender we were born with but rather what gender we feel that we are . This statement arrises many arguments considering not everyone agrees with that just as many do not agree pink belongs to women and blue belongs to men. With transgenders evolving we have to now question our daily sociology expectations we have not look at the outside of someone and assume there gender but rather be gender fluid because although someone can look like a man then can feel that they are a women. Agents of socialization is what shaped our society today before I was born when I was seen on a sonogram I was automatically put into the pink category considering I had a vagina and not a penis. That simple explanation is what gets many people mad because they do not see the part that I was born with as my “gender” . Gender has evolved into so much in the past century rights have came and many more arguments on why there shouldn’t be gender roles and more equality. We look back yers ago and women had no rights now women have rights but that wasn’t enough to make people happy because now they want us to be equal all the way regardless of what we are born with . Gender policing is very important to me as they go hand in hand with morals as a lady you can not walk around with no shirt but a man can and I feel that is 100% correct but majority of society would argue with me that we should be equal and I say women want to be so equal to men but if it came down to serving our country and them getting drafter majority of women would not agree with that. We socialized gender for years and now people are trying to work so hard unsocialize it and I feel they are fighting a fight that they don’t even fully understand. They want equal wages but there is some jobs that are better ran by a certain gender. This is when sexism comes into play and I feel that the “man up” as a man is fine some might say men need to cry or we put men into a society that they feel they have to act a certain way and I say yes we do just as we put women here to cater to be a mother a certain way. These are all powerful lessons because it shows the rules of gender in society we want a more less gender roles society its going to take a lot more than just toys being gender fluid we would have to break the pink and blue line and society is not really wanting that. We are socially stratified and unequal and I feel that it will continue to be like that considering how long we have already been like this.