It’s so easy to get away with making closed-minded statements about folks who don’t conform to gender norms. Or to sexuality norms. It remains so very easy. I don’t think that it’s the LAST acceptable stereotype or prejudice, but it remains an acceptable one.
This weekend I was part of a discussion on a different blog [...]
Posts Tagged ‘boys and girls’
It’s so easy to get away with
Posted in beyond labels, equality, expanding gender notions, gender funneling, gender roles, social norms, transcending boundaries, tagged boys and girls, courage, gender expression, gender funnelling, gender norms, gender roles, gender stereotypes, men and women on November 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The power of markers
Posted in beyond labels, clothing, expanding gender notions, gender funneling, social norms, tagged boys and girls, clothing, gender, gender markers, gender stereotypes, gendered norms on November 2, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Gender markers, that is. I’m continually fascinated by how folks read gender markers on Q. For example, this weekend, he was wearing jeans and a turquoise shirt (not too “loud” turquoise). He declared it “a blue day” — nothing about gender, just really about style. We were walking around our liberal town and he was [...]
Mechanically-inclined
Posted in expanding gender notions, gender funneling, play!, toys, tagged boys and girls, gender roles, gender stereotypes, gendered norms, toys on November 1, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This morning, Q was looking through a catalog, pointing out things to me that he was interested in. The list included a take-apart model of the human body, a model of a solar house, a robotic arm, and many marble runs.
He’s really interested in how things work — looking carefully, taking things apart, etc. Out [...]
Disrupting Norms
Posted in beyond labels, expanding gender notions, gender funneling, tagged boys and girls, disrupting gender norms, gender roles, gender stereotypes on October 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, to follow up on my post about gender segregation among kiddos in play, as well as the amazing responses that folks offered on the various things we think are at the root of this, I ask for your thoughts again.
How do we start to disrupt these patterns? One “I only ‘comment’ in person” commenter [...]
What is it with gender dynamics?
Posted in expanding gender notions, gender funneling, hmmm..., tagged gender norms, gender roles, gender stereotypes, boys and girls, kid play on September 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’m so very curious about gender dynamics among kids. Really and truly curious. Not curious in the annoyed sort of way. Honestly.
So here’s what I’m curious about: Why is it that, especially as they get older, girls tend to gravitate towards girls (for play, hanging out, partners in school things, etc) and boys to boys? [...]
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