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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
I think that nurture has a bigger impact than nature. A lot of good things were said during the class discussion and I agree with all of them. Before kids are even born, parents begin to force gender stereotypes on their kids. Parents teach kids to associate the color blue with boys and that pink is for girls. Parents also give boys sports equipment and assume that they will play sports. Parents give girls dolls and let them play dress up. We don't usually see girls playing "manly" sports like football and hockey because that isn't how they are brought up. A lot of todays sitcoms also portray many gender stereotypes, like, women are meant to be in the kitchen and men are meant to out working providing for the family. I think that gender behavior is mainly nurture.
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I can see where you are coming from Bobby but what about all of the boys who don't like playing hard contact sports and girls who do. They may have been pressured to like those types of activities during their developing period but it didn't click. Those people don't seem to fall under either category. Is it possible that both ideas could be wrong and it's just developed through the combination of both parents genes? Or is that what "nature" is supposed to mean? I am beginning to think that this an unsolvable question that nobody can have the answer to. But still quite perplexing.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a combination of both nurture and nature. Boys are indeed brought up in more manly things but the reason they do them is because the enjoy them. Boys tend to stick with sports more than girls do even though many girls and boys play some of the same sports. Boys are more capable because of genetics to be better at the sports so it does make it more fun. I also think that the reason boys do enjoy sports more because they get used to it more from watching sports more on TV and playing them more often. They also sort of feel as though that's how they should be. So i think it's a combination.
ReplyDeleteI believe that, by nature, boys and girls are born into what their expectations are supposed to be. Boys are born with more testosterone and therefore act more violently and aggressively than girls, as to girls with estrogen etc. However, there is that nurture side of parents nursing their kids into their stereotypes, such as a Dad coaching his sons baseball team or a mom teaching her daughter how to be a proper young woman. When it comes down to it, I believe that the nature aspect of a childhood has more to do with a gender standard than nuture
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Of course there are going to be occasions where girls are more boy-like, and boys more girl-like, but again, majority of society follows the typical stereotypes. It is easy to be a girly girl, and it's easy for boys to be manly, but it is a lot more difficult for someone that is different from the stereotype to admit who they really are; and that is all because of how the world views the two genders.
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