It’s true that a majority of children seem to gravitate towards gender-specific items (though how much is nature or nurture is still a puzzle), but it amazes me that people still try to FORCE children to act according to their what their gender is “supposed” to like rather than personality.
Anyhow, it was fun to put in the gender frog, and if it had occurred to me I likely would have included the frog again.
Oh, and if you haven’t seen the fun viral video yet:
With uniqueness come differences.
Differences realized and generalized generates bias….
And Powerpuff Girls isn’t it?
Heh, my poor mom didn’t know what to do with me… always running into the house and waving worm snakes in her face (granted, she had it coming, another story, but still) and going through not only regular clothes but shoes, oh my goodness I remember her constantly complaining that she had to get me new shoes ’cause I always wore them out so quickly. All that tree-climbing, you know ;) (I even remember one time when I got a pair of light blue tennis shoes that I really rather liked and was determined to not mess them up so quickly… yeah, you guessed it, 3 months later they were in tatters ;D)
I don’t think my wife and I have done much to encourage my daughter to like “girly” things (and she watches no TV, so it does not come from there), but she gravitates towards them anyways. Loves Tinkerbell, purple/pink things, horses, etc. Hates getting dirty (she’s 2! go play in some mud or something!)
That being said, with how girly she can be, it is always mildly amusing how excited she gets about motorcycles.
I’ve always really liked this strip, possibly in part because once after a recent re-read of the Little Dee book my significant other and I were visiting some old family friends of hers. They had found and shared a photo of her as a girl holding a frog in two hands kind of like Dee here, looking pleased as can be.
We never did that in my family. What ended up happening? Peer pressure did it for us.