Gender stereotyping leads to bullying. When Grayson Bruce, age 9, brought his My Little Pony lunch sack to school, the principal advised his mother to tell her son that in order to avoid bullying, he should leave his lunch sack at home.
Wow. That is the advice of the school principal? To conform? That’s the best the leader of the school can do? My 4 yr old daughter was bullied at her preschool for wearing “boy” shoes (translation “Star Wars” sneakers.) I spoke with my daughter’s teachers who then spoke to the kids about how shoes are for everyone. After my daughter’s experience, I did a Google search: “bullied for boy shoes.” Yesterday my 4 year old wore her waterproof slip-on shoes for boy or girl to school (they are black Timberland moccasins) and she told me this morning, “The girls would not play with me yesterdays because they said I was wearing boys shoes, can you please put sparkly shoes on me ???” Cover them in glitter. Note to parents: Gender stereotyping CAUSES bullying.
What Happened When My Son Wore A Pink Headband To Walmart. Watch Strangers Tell A Little Boy in a Costume Store That He Can't Be a Princess for Halloween. "What's that, kiddo?
You want to be Belle? Sure thing! Mummy just has to stop at the bank and get a roll of quarters to bust the teeth of anyone who tries to make a goddamn comment about it to us or even looks at you sideways! " It's just sad, 'cause that "oh, but he'll get picked on! " argument is such bullshit. That said, I was in ToysRUs recently, and some woman was there with her husband/boyfriend/manservant letting her two boys (probably between 6 and 8) pick out a toy apiece as a treat.
Pink boys : ces garçons qui aiment le rose. Photo : Istockphoto Judes a un garçon de 7 ans qui raffole du tricot.
Le fils d’Annie, âgé de 6 ans, aime faire semblant de se maquiller en utilisant les pinceaux et les petits pots de sa mère. Le plus jeune d’Émilie a 2 ans et porte fièrement ses chandails ornés de brillants, de chatons et de papillons… Un héritage vestimentaire de sa sœur aînée. Ces garçons sont-ils « différents »? « Il y a plein d’enfants qui ont un intérêt marqué pour les choses de l’autre genre », dit Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, professeure à l’École de service social de l’Université de Montréal. Il faut dire que dès la naissance, le conformisme social est grand. Une fillette qui joue aux petites voitures et aux dinosaures ne suscitera aucun commentaire. Le mot est lâché : fif. L’impact pour les garçons est immense, selon une étude conduite par Michel Dorais : 75 % des enfants non conformes au niveau du genre seront victimes d’intimation à l’école primaire et secondaire. La solution? Feminist Fatale » Make-up and Hot Pink Toenails- Not Just a Girl Thing.
My toddler son has a thing for all things wheeled.
He can easily distinguish a skip loader from a backhoe and a semi-truck from a dump truck. He’s also intrigued by my jewelery box, stacking bracelets high up his pudgy arms. After watching Mommy’s daily morning ritual of applying some eyeshadow and liquid liner on countless occasions, it’s none too surprising that he’s fascinated by my make-up box, eager to smear eyeshadow across his eyelids (forehead, nose and cheeks). My friend’s little boy loved sparkly ballet flats and dollhouses while another’s had a penchant for his sister’s pink tutu and glittered angel wings. These boys are commonplace-and not represented in mainstream pop culture. Given this heavily color-coded world of children’s play, policed through gendered toy ads, catalogs and cartoons, this J. “Particularly with the Boy” By Lisa Wade, PhD, May 14, 2010, at 10:06 am In the U.S. today we largely accept and encourage girls’ experimentation with boy-coded things, but we are still extremely ambivalent, if not downright condemnatory, of boys experimenting with girl-coded things.
This excerpt from an Ann Landers advice column from 1974 shows that Landers had the same asymmetrical concerns almost 40 years ago. The parents ask about the sex-crossed play behavior of both their daughter and their son, but Landers fixates on the son, suggesting that if he continues such play he should get checked out. From Ms.