Monday, February 1, 2016
Growing Up: Boy or Girl
A lot of what the reading said is correct about society, especially with how society expects each gender to act and grow up as. I agree with the points and claims made. Before the birth of a child, parents are always looking to pick things out determined on whether it is a boy or a girl. Society looks at parents to pick proper attire, always relating blue to boys and pink to girls. Now I have always wondered why these colors, mainly why baby blue for boys. Baby blue is such a girly color, at least later in a guys life, so I never understood the point of that color relating to boys. In the bigger picture, why does society relate certain colors to certain genders? I see multiple colors that are related to one gender, worn by many individuals of the other gender. It just doesn't seem very realistic to do for babies since society is so different when you get older, which brings up other points. When children grow up, they are expected to act certain ways, but in all reality, it determines on how the parents raise the child, plus how the child reacts to certain circumstances. typically boys are more troublesome then girls, however, my sister was by far the most troublesome child in my family when growing up. I feel like society expects too much out of each gender, in the sense of how they are supposed to act. Girls are supposed to be gentle and caring, whereas guys are rough and get into things they shouldn't. I know many girls that are considered tomboys, and they do everything that a guys does, but are still classified as girls. I know many guys who don't like to get into trouble and who like to stay indoors, plus there are very emotional guys in the world, which society says shouldn't be allowed. I feel like everyone should grow up based on what they are happy with, therefore, society needs to back off, and stop expecting boys to act a certain way, and girls to act a different way.
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Hi, I totally agree with your statement about how every one should grow up the way they are happy. Society these days tries to put every single gender, demographic, height, weight, hair color, ect. into a box (objectification) that people actually lose who they're supposed to be. I really liked the part of the reading about being raised and stuff, and especially what you said about being raised literally from the womb to be what someone else wants and expects you to be. Now I’m not saying everyone should just be born a grey blob and then get to choose but I think a big problem, and why people are so ok with these gender norms and objectification is truly because they were raised from birth being a part of that culture and see nothing wrong with it because truly we’ve been objectified since birth, and that raises the ever confusing question, does that make it ok? Because it sucks when being raised as a girly girl or a tomboy is really what you love but your parents raised you that way. Is it what you love? Is it bad that your parent put you in that box if its truly what you want and enjoy? It’s all a touchy subject with a thousand different variables that make deciding right and wrong very difficult.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how giving each newborn a color depending on their gender is a little weird and that society shouldn’t use colors to show gender, because gender is much more than a color, even if the nurses and doctors don’t realize it at such an early stage of one’s life. Now each person respectively should be able to grow up and figure out who they are without outside factors and norms telling them what they are meant to be, but in this world that we live in that is really a myth. I know for myself no parents or people who have a child and don’t teach them what society portrays them to be, that if you’re a girl you must wear dresses and have good manners and if you’re a boy you have to be strong and take care of everyone. In the text it explained how each child’s vocal tract is identical, they just choose to talk in such a different way because that is what they see. A girl sees other girls talking in a soft or high pitched sound and boys hear a deep manly tone. It is all really sad if you look on it that children really don’t have that chance to choose what they want to be, instead they are molded into something from such a young age that gives them no other option, it’s either boy or girl.
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