'Gender Socialization by the Toy Industry\r'

'The message of gender socialization being impose upon unexampled children subliminally leads quite obvious when one observes the Wal-Mart act as department from an unbiased viewpoint. Normally when I approximate into the toy department, which is almost always against my provide, I’m on a swift mission. Find a toy to reward my 3 year everyplaceaged nephew with after a good week of day c are and get the heck out of there. However, when you’re child innocuous and walking the aisles, you become bombarded with gender driven propaganda.\r\nYou tangle with an aisle that might as well set up â€Å"For Boys Only” at the entrance. Taking a fancy around you see cars and trucks packaged in oversized, brightly or dark colored boxes splattered with images of exact boys happily playing with the toy all over the box. You pass fire trucks, police cars, race tracks, cowboys, astronauts and bend toys, all clearly portraying them as â€Å"Boys Toys” so vividly all they’re missing is a button one can push that exit shout â€Å"This is so not for girls! On a trip to the coterminous aisle over you become overwhelmed by bright pink or delicate boxes, decorated with flower images or sparkly pictures of elflike girls playing with the toy. You pass Barbie with her plastic blonde bull and plastic blue eyes, next to her obviously less(prenominal) popular brunette friend, Teresa. Clearly this shows little girls what the â€Å" holy person gorgeous char” should look like. Barbie shows a woman can conquer the world if she’s vesture the right outfit.\r\nShe can be a CEO, relief valve attend ant, lawyer, nurse, doctor, dancer, princess or astronaut and all she has to do is project still, look pretty, have monstrously oversized breasts, and contain the right clothes. Who really wants their daughter to believe this is the tag end to success? You see the Easy Bake Oven with a big glossy picture of two young girls baking a small desert. You see afternoon tea sets and baby dolls and all you come to find is that girls are being subliminally trained they are to be subservient, attractive, national and beautiful. They should be demure, domestic, and trained to raise children.\r\nI go forth the toy section a little nauseous. As a child I was given risque Wheels cars and Barbie’s. I had a black big wind with flames on it and an Easy Bake Oven. I had an ant farm and a doll house next to each other in my childhood bedroom, and I think I turned out alright. It’s sad to see children’s genders being shoved tear their throats by propaganda, especially now that we have priapic nurses and women in congress; however, pink is for girls and blue is for boys fit in to the advertising and toy industries, and I doubt that will ever change.\r\n'