Girls Versus Boys: Toys and Gender Role Socialization

"What a boy is doing Barbie, a man is crazy, only girls play dolls, everyone knows!" This is Carbine's answer when he is 7 years old. . Listening to these words can make people understand that children are strongly influenced by sex from a very young age. Sociologist James Hensling believes that gender is "behavior and attitude that society is suitable for men and women, male or female" (280).

Toy manufacturers sell sex-oriented toys to girls and boys, and traditional sexual roles are permanent. Children learn about the meaning of men or women by pretending to play games. Girls can have a room full of pink princess toys, but she may want to rail the train track and a crash accident. Boys may like to shoot building towers and spray guns and pretend to be a toy kitchen. There is no doubt what kind of gender is the goal when pink shelves fill with pink toys in pink packaging. The pink princess themed dress is next to the pink kitchen. Next to the pink tea set there is a pink toy kitchen. Pink cosmetics show that fashion dolls and wearing pink clothes coexist. Your little girl may obviously tend to block guns, spray guns, action characters, but she may start to feel pressure to yield to pink pressure

You will notice numerous sex projects as you walk through the path of the Target toy. Pink and beautiful girls, cosmetics, dolls, toys dressing up, toys for boys often include buildings and action figures. Most "girls" toys focus on families, look beautiful, and plant an "ideal" body image. "Boys' toys focus on creativity and strength, encouraging aggression and confidence. Adult toys embed these ideas in an infant's mind and perpetuate the traditional sex role

The target toy division clearly shows the difference between the roles of the little girl and the boy. The simple fact that we know what a toy means for girls and what a boy's toy is is a sign of the influence of "sex role" in our society. We have unknowingly proposed these undocumented rules. "When a sex is assimilated into a product, it is considered fixed and frozen, it is an attribute of some gender definition that shows masculinity or female nature on a supermarket shelf." Perfect "supermarket" An example. It is usually sex space, with some exceptions, a passage of a boy and a passage of a girl.